The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyT. Y. Crowell Company, 1865 - 705 pages |
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... living man ; Nor the minutest drop of rain , That hangeth in its thinnest cloud , But flowed in human veins : And from the burning plains Where Lybian monsters yell , From the most gloomy glens Of Greenland's sunless clime , To where ...
... living man ; Nor the minutest drop of rain , That hangeth in its thinnest cloud , But flowed in human veins : And from the burning plains Where Lybian monsters yell , From the most gloomy glens Of Greenland's sunless clime , To where ...
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... living soul . Behold a gorgeous palace , that , amid Yon populous city , rears its thousand towers And seems itself a city . Gloomy troops Of sentinels , in stern and silent ranks , Encompass it around : the dweller there Cannot be free ...
... living soul . Behold a gorgeous palace , that , amid Yon populous city , rears its thousand towers And seems itself a city . Gloomy troops Of sentinels , in stern and silent ranks , Encompass it around : the dweller there Cannot be free ...
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... living spirit . Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part , And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds ; these beget Evil and good : hence truth and falsehood spring ; Hence will , and thought , and action , all ...
... living spirit . Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part , And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds ; these beget Evil and good : hence truth and falsehood spring ; Hence will , and thought , and action , all ...
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... living god , and rules in scorn All earthly things but virtue . Since tyrants , by the sale of human life , Heap luxuries to their sensualism , and fame To their wide - wasting and insatiate pride . Success has sanctioned to a credulous ...
... living god , and rules in scorn All earthly things but virtue . Since tyrants , by the sale of human life , Heap luxuries to their sensualism , and fame To their wide - wasting and insatiate pride . Success has sanctioned to a credulous ...
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... living things that walk , swim , creep , or fly , Were gods : the sun had homage , and the moon Her worshipper . Then thou becamest a boy , More daring in thy frenzies : every shape , Monstrous or vast , or beautifully wild , Which from ...
... living things that walk , swim , creep , or fly , Were gods : the sun had homage , and the moon Her worshipper . Then thou becamest a boy , More daring in thy frenzies : every shape , Monstrous or vast , or beautifully wild , Which from ...
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Page 487 - 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! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The...
Page 506 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Page 599 - 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...
Page 606 - Its passions will rock thee As the storms rock the ravens on high : Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come.
Page 503 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 502 - 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. 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 485 - O thou, 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 (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Page 503 - And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, — And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise, and unbuild it again.
Page 580 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight ! Wrap thy form in a mantle gray, Star-inwrought ! Blind with thine hair the eyes of day, Kiss her until she be wearied out, Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land, Touching all with thine opiate wand. Come, long-sought...
Page 578 - 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 ! too surely shall thou find Thine own well full, if thou returnest home, Of tears and gall. From the world's bitter wind Seek shelter in the shadow of the tomb. What Adonais is, why fear we to become...