Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe ShelleyThis volume was published just two years after Shelley's death. It collects some of his final poems, including unfinished works. Shelley's wife, Mary, was responsible for assembling the collection, and she also provides a revealing introduction. |
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... Dream Mont Blanc 111 121 129 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci Song • To Constantia , singing The Fugitives A Lament The Pine Forest To Night Evening Arethusa The Question Lines to an Indian Air Stanzas Autumn , a ...
... Dream Mont Blanc 111 121 129 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci Song • To Constantia , singing The Fugitives A Lament The Pine Forest To Night Evening Arethusa The Question Lines to an Indian Air Stanzas Autumn , a ...
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... dream of , happy , high , majestical . Where is the love , beauty , and truth we seek , But in our minds ? And , if we were not weak , Should we be less in deed than in desire ? " - - " Aye , if we were not weak , and we aspire , How ...
... dream of , happy , high , majestical . Where is the love , beauty , and truth we seek , But in our minds ? And , if we were not weak , Should we be less in deed than in desire ? " - - " Aye , if we were not weak , and we aspire , How ...
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... dreaming Of sweetest peace , I woke , and found my state Such as it is.- " O , thou , my spirit's mate ! Who , for thou art compassionate and wise , Wouldst pity me from thy most gentle eyes If this sad writing thou shouldst ever see ...
... dreaming Of sweetest peace , I woke , and found my state Such as it is.- " O , thou , my spirit's mate ! Who , for thou art compassionate and wise , Wouldst pity me from thy most gentle eyes If this sad writing thou shouldst ever see ...
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... dream that I will join the vulgar eye , Or with my silence sanction tyranny , Or seek a moment's shelter from my pain In any madness which the world calls gain ; Ambition , or revenge , or thoughts as stern As those which make me what I ...
... dream that I will join the vulgar eye , Or with my silence sanction tyranny , Or seek a moment's shelter from my pain In any madness which the world calls gain ; Ambition , or revenge , or thoughts as stern As those which make me what I ...
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... dreams he wept , And muttered some familiar name , and we Wept without shame in his society . I think I never was impress'd so much ; The man who were not , must have lack'd a touch Of human nature . Then we linger'd not , Although our ...
... dreams he wept , And muttered some familiar name , and we Wept without shame in his society . I think I never was impress'd so much ; The man who were not , must have lack'd a touch Of human nature . Then we linger'd not , Although our ...
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Page 195 - 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 194 - WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
Page 165 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; — To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Page 285 - The windings of the dell. — The rivulet, Wanton and wild, through many a green ravine Beneath the forest flowed. Sometimes it fell Among the moss, with hollow harmony Dark and profound. Now on the polished stones It danced ; like childhood, laughing as it went : Then, through the plain in tranquil wanderings crept, Reflecting every herb and drooping bud \ That overhung its quietness.
Page 276 - While day-light held The sky, the Poet kept mute conference With his still soul. At night the passion came, Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream, And shook him from his rest, and led him forth Into the darkness.
Page 23 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Page 81 - The great, the unforgotten, — they who wore Mitres and helms and crowns, or wreaths of light, Signs of thought's empire over thought. Their lore "Taught them not this, to know themselves ; their might Could not repress the mystery within ; And, for the morn of truth they feigned, deep night
Page 274 - His languid limbs. A vision on his sleep There came, a dream of hopes that never yet Had flushed his cheek. He dreamed a veiled maid Sate near him, talking in low solemn tones. Her voice was like the voice of his own soul Heard in the calm of thought...
Page 8 - Dissolved into one lake of fire, were seen Those mountains towering as from waves of flame Around the vaporous sun, from which there came The inmost purple spirit of light, and made Their very peaks transparent 'Ere it fade,' Said my companion, 'I will show you soon A better station...
Page 263 - To the Moon Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, — And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?