The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published, 3. köideReeves and Turner, 1880 |
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... never completely assimilated his style . I may say , none the less , that to make quite certain , I have submitted this line to an expert , -who decides with me that there is no doubt whatever as to the hand that made the revision ...
... never completely assimilated his style . I may say , none the less , that to make quite certain , I have submitted this line to an expert , -who decides with me that there is no doubt whatever as to the hand that made the revision ...
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... never was , nor ever will be , a popular poet ; and the total neglect and obscurity in which the astonishing remnants of his mind still lie , was hardly to be dissipated by a writer who , however he may differ from Keats in more ...
... never was , nor ever will be , a popular poet ; and the total neglect and obscurity in which the astonishing remnants of his mind still lie , was hardly to be dissipated by a writer who , however he may differ from Keats in more ...
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... never more ! — Within the twilight chamber spreads apace , been any room for doubt upon that point . Shelley saw clearly , and stated explicitly , what Mr. Swinburne will not admit , that the creeds of Dante and Milton were a mere outer ...
... never more ! — Within the twilight chamber spreads apace , been any room for doubt upon that point . Shelley saw clearly , and stated explicitly , what Mr. Swinburne will not admit , that the creeds of Dante and Milton were a mere outer ...
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... never more ! " Wake thou , " cried Misery , " childless Mother , rise " Out of thy sleep , and slake , in thy heart's core , " A wound more fierce than his with tears and sighs . " And all the Dreams that watched Urania's eyes , And all ...
... never more ! " Wake thou , " cried Misery , " childless Mother , rise " Out of thy sleep , and slake , in thy heart's core , " A wound more fierce than his with tears and sighs . " And all the Dreams that watched Urania's eyes , And all ...
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... never could repel , Whose sacred blood , like the young tears of May , Paved with eternal flowers that undeserving way . XXV . In the death chamber for a moment Death Shamed by the presence of that living Might Blushed to annihilation ...
... never could repel , Whose sacred blood , like the young tears of May , Paved with eternal flowers that undeserving way . XXV . In the death chamber for a moment Death Shamed by the presence of that living Might Blushed to annihilation ...
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Adonais AHASUERUS beautiful beneath blood breath bright Charles Cowden Clarke clouds cold collected editions comma dæmons damned dark dead death Devil doubt dream earth edition of 1839 editions known eyes fear flowers fragment Garnett gentle Gisborne Greek grief HASSAN heart Heaven Hellas hope Horace Smith Hunt's Julian and Maddalo lady later editions Leigh Hunt letter light living looked MAHMUD mighty mind moon mountains mourning for Adonais night o'er ocean Ollier pale passage Peter Bell Pisa poet Posthumous Poems previous editions Prince Athanase printed Queen Mab Rossetti ruin says scorn seems SEMICHORUS shadow Shelley Memorials Shelley's editions SHELLEY'S NOTE sleep smile song soul spelt spirit splendour stanza stars stream substituted sweet tears thee thine things Thou art thought tion transcript Victory wake weep wind wings word Wordsworth written
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Page 21 - Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again; Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive, With food of saddest memory kept alive, Now thou art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais!
Page 30 - 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 shalt thou find Thine own well full, if thou returnest home, Of tears and gall.
Page 18 - Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year; The airs and streams renew their joyous tone; The ants, the bees, the swallows reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons...
Page 23 - He answered not, but with a sudden hand Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's or Christ's — oh! that it should be so!
Page 23 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 15 - 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 154 - 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 14 - 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. VI. But now, thy youngest, dearest one, has perished, The nursling of thy widowhood, who grew, Like a pale flower- by some sad maiden cherished, And fed with true love tears instead of dew.
Page 21 - 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...
Page 154 - Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found. And walked with inward glory crowned...