Poems Selected from Percy Bysshe ShelleyKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 - 394 pages |
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... truth or fable consecrates , he felt And knew . When early youth had past , he left His cold fireside and alienated home To seek strange truths in undiscovered lands . Many a wide waste and tangled wilderness Has lured his fearless ...
... truth or fable consecrates , he felt And knew . When early youth had past , he left His cold fireside and alienated home To seek strange truths in undiscovered lands . Many a wide waste and tangled wilderness Has lured his fearless ...
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... a quenchless fire ; nor truth availed Till late to arrest its progress , or create That peace which first in bloodless victory waved Her snowy standard o'er this favoured clime : There man 56 THE DEMON OF THE WORLD .
... a quenchless fire ; nor truth availed Till late to arrest its progress , or create That peace which first in bloodless victory waved Her snowy standard o'er this favoured clime : There man 56 THE DEMON OF THE WORLD .
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... a and ever - shifting mirror Of all the beauty and the terror there A woman's countenance , with serpent locks , Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks . TO WILLIAM SHELLEY . ( With what truth I may 164 ON THE MEDUSA .
... a and ever - shifting mirror Of all the beauty and the terror there A woman's countenance , with serpent locks , Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks . TO WILLIAM SHELLEY . ( With what truth I may 164 ON THE MEDUSA .
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