The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 3. köideReeves and Turner, 1877 |
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Page xviii
... known to me , and when , particularly , they are recorded as adopted by Mr. Rossetti , the statement is not strictly correct ; and I must disclaim , with every apology to Mr. Rossetti , any intention to defraud him of the credit of ...
... known to me , and when , particularly , they are recorded as adopted by Mr. Rossetti , the statement is not strictly correct ; and I must disclaim , with every apology to Mr. Rossetti , any intention to defraud him of the credit of ...
Page xix
... known to the public will be omitted . These arrangements have been another cause of delay . I have to qualify in a very sad sense the bearing of one or two passages in the notes to this volume , those wherein the name of Charles Cowden ...
... known to the public will be omitted . These arrangements have been another cause of delay . I have to qualify in a very sad sense the bearing of one or two passages in the notes to this volume , those wherein the name of Charles Cowden ...
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... known repugnance to the narrow principles of taste on which several of his earlier compositions were modelled , prove , 3 at least that I am an impartial judge . I consider the fragment of Hyperion ,. MOSCHUS , EPITAPH . BION . 1 ...
... known repugnance to the narrow principles of taste on which several of his earlier compositions were modelled , prove , 3 at least that I am an impartial judge . I consider the fragment of Hyperion ,. MOSCHUS , EPITAPH . BION . 1 ...
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... known to me until the Elegy was ready for the press . I am given to understand that the wound which his sensitive spirit had received from the criticism of Endymion , was exasperated by the bitter sense of unrequited benefits ; the poor ...
... known to me until the Elegy was ready for the press . I am given to understand that the wound which his sensitive spirit had received from the criticism of Endymion , was exasperated by the bitter sense of unrequited benefits ; the poor ...
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... known to him till the poem was ready for press , and he apologizes for not paying a tribute to Severn's devotion . The allusion in the letter to Severn ( see note 1 , p . 8 ) is of course to this passage in the pre- face . He must have ...
... known to him till the poem was ready for press , and he apologizes for not paying a tribute to Severn's devotion . The allusion in the letter to Severn ( see note 1 , p . 8 ) is of course to this passage in the pre- face . He must have ...
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Page 146 - 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 25 - He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird ; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own ; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 29 - That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move, That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Page 28 - 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 27 - And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, 440 A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Page 146 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, ii.
Page 16 - 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 ! xv1n.
Page 13 - The shadow of white Death, and at the" door Invisible Corruption waits to trace His extreme way to her dim dwelling-place ; The eternal Hunger sits, but pity and awe Soothe her pale rage, nor dares she to deface So fair a prey, till darkness and the law Of change shall o'er his sleep the mortal curtain draw.
Page 147 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array ; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the...
Page 153 - All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew Which from his wide cloak he drew.