The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With NotesJames B. Smith, 1860 - 498 pages |
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... beautiful blue heaven is flecked with blood ! The sunshine on the floor is black ! The air Is changed to vapours such as the dead breathe In charnel pits ! -Pah ! I am choked ! There creeps A clinging , black , contaminating mist About ...
... beautiful blue heaven is flecked with blood ! The sunshine on the floor is black ! The air Is changed to vapours such as the dead breathe In charnel pits ! -Pah ! I am choked ! There creeps A clinging , black , contaminating mist About ...
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... , and grand , Astonishes , enraptures , elevates , When faney at a glance combines The wondrous and the beautiful , - So bright , so fair , so wild a shape Hath ever yet beheld , As that which reined the 58 QUEEN MAB .
... , and grand , Astonishes , enraptures , elevates , When faney at a glance combines The wondrous and the beautiful , - So bright , so fair , so wild a shape Hath ever yet beheld , As that which reined the 58 QUEEN MAB .
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... beautiful in naked purity , The perfect semblance of its bodily frame . Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace , Each stain of earthliness Had passed away : it reassumed Its native dignity , and stood Immortal amid ruin . Upon the ...
... beautiful in naked purity , The perfect semblance of its bodily frame . Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace , Each stain of earthliness Had passed away : it reassumed Its native dignity , and stood Immortal amid ruin . Upon the ...
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... beautiful this night ! the balmiest sigh , Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene . Heaven's ebon vault , Studded with stars unutterably bright , Through which ...
... beautiful this night ! the balmiest sigh , Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene . Heaven's ebon vault , Studded with stars unutterably bright , Through which ...
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... beautiful , that spread Earth's lap with plenty , and life's smallest chord Strung to unchanging unison , that gave The happy birds their dwelling in the grove , That yielded to the wanderers of the deep The lovely silence of the ...
... beautiful , that spread Earth's lap with plenty , and life's smallest chord Strung to unchanging unison , that gave The happy birds their dwelling in the grove , That yielded to the wanderers of the deep The lovely silence of the ...
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Page 346 - Oh, weep for Adonais!— The quick Dreams, The passion-winged ministers of thought, Who were his flocks, whom near the living streams Of his young spirit he fed, and whom he taught The love which was its music, wander not,— Wander no more, from kindling brain to brain, But droop there, whence they sprung; and mourn their lot Round the cold heart, where, after their sweet pain, They ne'er will gather strength, or find a home again.
Page 345 - Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep Like his a mute and uncomplaining sleep; For he is gone where all things wise and fair Descend. Oh, dream not that the amorous Deep Will yet restore him to the vital air; Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair.
Page 346 - In which suns perished ; others more sublime, Struck by the envious wrath of man or God, Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime ; And some yet live, treading the thorny road, Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode.
Page 356 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 429 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 426 - The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning star shines dead.
Page 74 - How beautiful this night ! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love had spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Page 426 - Over earth and ocean with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move...
Page 346 - 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 464 - Or the star-beams dart through them. Winds contend Silently there, and heap the snow, with breath Rapid and strong, but silently. Its home The voiceless lightning in these solitudes Keeps innocently, and like vapour broods Over the snow. The secret Strength of Things, Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of heaven is as a law, inhabits thee.