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Page xi
... young men of Cambridge , that its Union sent a deputation in November 1829 to the Oxford Union , to maintain Shelley's superiority over Byron . " At that time , " said Lord Houghton - speaking in 1866— “ we , the Cambridge ...
... young men of Cambridge , that its Union sent a deputation in November 1829 to the Oxford Union , to maintain Shelley's superiority over Byron . " At that time , " said Lord Houghton - speaking in 1866— “ we , the Cambridge ...
Page xii
... young persons , and on uneducated but intelligent working men , who may sympathise with its opinions . The poem had such an influence , and that influence was widely extended . Two years later , in 1815 , all was changed . The ...
... young persons , and on uneducated but intelligent working men , who may sympathise with its opinions . The poem had such an influence , and that influence was widely extended . Two years later , in 1815 , all was changed . The ...
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... young , their wider and better views of God . Many men , also , who were quite careless of religion , yet cared for poetry , were led , and are still led , to think con- cerning the grounds of a true worship , by the moral enthusiasm ...
... young , their wider and better views of God . Many men , also , who were quite careless of religion , yet cared for poetry , were led , and are still led , to think con- cerning the grounds of a true worship , by the moral enthusiasm ...
Page lviii
... young , and the sense , then also ours , of all the outward world becoming , in the pur- suit of the ideal , as if it had no real being . At last the mystery of life which cannot be repressed , begins to stir within the youth . He can ...
... young , and the sense , then also ours , of all the outward world becoming , in the pur- suit of the ideal , as if it had no real being . At last the mystery of life which cannot be repressed , begins to stir within the youth . He can ...
Page lix
... young and were melted by the glow which they extinguished ; and others , like small gnats , thronged about the brows of lawyer , states- man , priest , and theorist . Shelley invents all kinds of them , and each has its meaning . These ...
... young and were melted by the glow which they extinguished ; and others , like small gnats , thronged about the brows of lawyer , states- man , priest , and theorist . Shelley invents all kinds of them , and each has its meaning . These ...
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Adonais aërial Alastor ANTISTROPHE Apennine azure beams beautiful beneath bird blue bowers breath bright calm cave caverns clouds cold Dæmons dark dead death deep delight DEMOGORGON dreams earth eternal Euganean Hills eyes faint fear fire fled float flowers forest gaze gentle golden grave green grey heart heaven hope human isles kiss leaves light lips living lone long past Maddalo mighty mist moon mountains Nature never night nursling o'er ocean odour OZYMANDIAS pale pale flowers Pantheism passion poem poet poetry Prometheus Unbound rain Revolt of Islam round SEMICHORUS Sensitive Plant shadow shadows watch shattered visage Shelley Shelley's sleep smile snow soft song soul sound spirit splendour stars storm stream sweet swift tears tempest thee thine things thou art thought thro tower vapours veil voice wandering waves weep Whilst wild wind wind-flowers wingèd wings woods
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Page 279 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth...
Page 65 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle...
Page 278 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Page 102 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire...
Page 294 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell...
Page 121 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing...
Page 277 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Page 302 - A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and Narrated Anew. By the Author of
Page 5 - On a poet's lips I slept, Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept. Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be : But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.
Page 120 - Life of Life, thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.