PoemsK. Paul, Trench, 1885 - 393 pages |
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... brow gathers , and the hair grows thin And white , and where irradiate dewy eyes Had shone , gleam stony orbs : -so from his steps Bright flowers departed , and the beautiful shade Of the green groves , with all their odorous winds And ...
... brow gathers , and the hair grows thin And white , and where irradiate dewy eyes Had shone , gleam stony orbs : -so from his steps Bright flowers departed , and the beautiful shade Of the green groves , with all their odorous winds And ...
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... Of the wide earth it flew , The rival of the Andes , whose dark brow Frowned o'er the silver sea . Far , far below the chariot's stormy path , Calm as a slumbering babe , Tremendous ocean lay . Its broad and silent mirror gave. 44.
... Of the wide earth it flew , The rival of the Andes , whose dark brow Frowned o'er the silver sea . Far , far below the chariot's stormy path , Calm as a slumbering babe , Tremendous ocean lay . Its broad and silent mirror gave. 44.
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... brow A threefold crown ; his countenance was calm , His eye severe and cold ; but his right hand Was charged with bloody coin , and he did gnaw By fits , with secret smiles , a human heart Concealed beneath his robe ; and motley shapes ...
... brow A threefold crown ; his countenance was calm , His eye severe and cold ; but his right hand Was charged with bloody coin , and he did gnaw By fits , with secret smiles , a human heart Concealed beneath his robe ; and motley shapes ...
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... abroad : Health floats amid the gentle atmosphere , Glows in the fruits , and mantles on the stream : No storms deform the beaming brow of heaven , Nor scatter in the freshness of its pride The foliage 53 THE DÆMON OF THE WORLD .
... abroad : Health floats amid the gentle atmosphere , Glows in the fruits , and mantles on the stream : No storms deform the beaming brow of heaven , Nor scatter in the freshness of its pride The foliage 53 THE DÆMON OF THE WORLD .
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... brow ! Where neither avarice , cunning , pride , or care , Had stamped the seal of grey deformity On all the ... brows With the green ivy and the red wall - flower , That mock the dungeon's unavailing gloom ; The ponderous chains , and ...
... brow ! Where neither avarice , cunning , pride , or care , Had stamped the seal of grey deformity On all the ... brows With the green ivy and the red wall - flower , That mock the dungeon's unavailing gloom ; The ponderous chains , and ...
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Adonais ANTISTROPHE Apennine art thou azure beams beautiful beneath billows blue bowers breath bright brow burning calm cave cavern clouds cold Dæmon dark dead death deep delight divine dome doth dream earth eternal EUGANEAN HILLS eyes faint fair fear fire flame fled fleeting river floating flowers folded palm gaze gentle gleam golden grave green grey heart heaven hope hopes and fears hues human isles kiss lady leaves LERICI light lips living lone MAGNETIC LADY mighty mingled moon morning mortal motion mountains mute music never night o'er ocean odour pale PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY poet rain Revolt of Islam rocks round shadow sigh silent sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit stars strange stream sweet swift tears thee thine things thou art thought throne tower tremble veil voice wandering waves weep Whilst wild wind wind-flowers wings woods
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Page 185 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 184 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning « Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Page 93 - Nothing / beside / remains. // Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / The lone and level sands / stretch far away. JOHN GIELGUD'S PAUSES: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: // Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a...
Page 143 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Page 322 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.
Page 208 - I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
Page 180 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 311 - As Albion wails for thee : the curse of Cain Light on his head who pierced thy innocent breast, And scared the angel soul that was its earthly guest ! xvni.
Page 325 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 273 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.