The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyEdward Moxon, 1840 - 363 pages |
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... rock , The utmost verge of earth , The rival of the Andes , whose dark brow Lowered o'er the silver sea . Far , far ... rocks of jet Crowned with a diamond wreath . And yet there is a moment , When the sun's highest point Peeps like a ...
... rock , The utmost verge of earth , The rival of the Andes , whose dark brow Lowered o'er the silver sea . Far , far ... rocks of jet Crowned with a diamond wreath . And yet there is a moment , When the sun's highest point Peeps like a ...
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... rocks , whence icicles depend , So stainless that their white and glittering spires Tinge not the moon's pure beam ; yon castled steep , Whose banner hangeth o'er the time - worn tower So idly , that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of ...
... rocks , whence icicles depend , So stainless that their white and glittering spires Tinge not the moon's pure beam ; yon castled steep , Whose banner hangeth o'er the time - worn tower So idly , that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of ...
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... rock , All seems unlinked contingency and chance : No atom of this turbulence fulfils A vague and unnecessitated task , Or acts but as it must and ought to act . Even the minutest molecule of light , NOTES . 12 QUEEN MAB .
... rock , All seems unlinked contingency and chance : No atom of this turbulence fulfils A vague and unnecessitated task , Or acts but as it must and ought to act . Even the minutest molecule of light , NOTES . 12 QUEEN MAB .
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... rocks and frozen soil , Where scarce the hardiest herb that braves the frost Basks in the moonlight's ineffectual glow , Shrank with the plants , and darkened with the night ; His chilled and narrow energies , his heart , Insensible to ...
... rocks and frozen soil , Where scarce the hardiest herb that braves the frost Basks in the moonlight's ineffectual glow , Shrank with the plants , and darkened with the night ; His chilled and narrow energies , his heart , Insensible to ...
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... the sculls heaped there , hurled it down the eminence it rebounded from the earth in shivered atoms . This was my father ! ' roared Ahasuerus . Seven more sculls rolled down from rock to rock ; while 28 NOTES ON QUEEN MAB .
... the sculls heaped there , hurled it down the eminence it rebounded from the earth in shivered atoms . This was my father ! ' roared Ahasuerus . Seven more sculls rolled down from rock to rock ; while 28 NOTES ON QUEEN MAB .
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Page 260 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Page 259 - Over earth and ocean with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea ; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The spirit he loves remains ; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
Page 299 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 292 - Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me ? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side ? Wouldst thou me ? And I replied, No, not thee...
Page 259 - Philosophy 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. Why not I with thine...
Page 289 - Now thou art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais! I would give All that I am to be as thou now art! But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!
Page 260 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine- own kind ? what ignorance of pain...
Page 291 - Here pause: these graves are all too young as yet To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned Its charge to each; and if the seal is set, Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind, Break it not thou!
Page 260 - All the earth and air with thy voice is loud, as when night is bare, from one lonely cloud the moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. 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.
Page 259 - Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit In the light of its golden wings. And when sunset may breathe, from the lit...