The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Various Additional Pieces from Ms. and Other Sources, Volume 2E. Moxon, 1870 |
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... never - ceasing labour , Whilst he thinks he cheats his neighbour , Cheating his own heart of quiet . XII . And all these meet at levees , - Dinners convivial and political— Suppers of epic poets - teas Where small - talk dies in ...
... never - ceasing labour , Whilst he thinks he cheats his neighbour , Cheating his own heart of quiet . XII . And all these meet at levees , - Dinners convivial and political— Suppers of epic poets - teas Where small - talk dies in ...
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... never could Fancy another situation , From which to dart his contemplation , Than that wherein he stood . IX . Yet his was individual mind , And new - created all he saw In a new manner , and refined Those new creations , and combined ...
... never could Fancy another situation , From which to dart his contemplation , Than that wherein he stood . IX . Yet his was individual mind , And new - created all he saw In a new manner , and refined Those new creations , and combined ...
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... never read them ; with amaze I found Sir William Drummond had . XVI . When the book came , the Devil sent It to P. Verbovale Esquire , With a brief note of compliment , By that night's Carlisle mail . It went , And set his soul on fire ...
... never read them ; with amaze I found Sir William Drummond had . XVI . When the book came , the Devil sent It to P. Verbovale Esquire , With a brief note of compliment , By that night's Carlisle mail . It went , And set his soul on fire ...
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... Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " P. 24 . It was thou , Devil , dining with pure intent . It is curious to observe how often extremes meet . Cobbett and Peter use the same language ...
... Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " P. 24 . It was thou , Devil , dining with pure intent . It is curious to observe how often extremes meet . Cobbett and Peter use the same language ...
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... never can commit the like again . If innocent , she will turn into an angel , And rain down blessings in the shape of comfits As she flies up to heaven . Now , my proposal Is to convert her sacred Majesty Into an angel ( as I am sure we ...
... never can commit the like again . If innocent , she will turn into an angel , And rain down blessings in the shape of comfits As she flies up to heaven . Now , my proposal Is to convert her sacred Majesty Into an angel ( as I am sure we ...
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Page 207 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year...
Page 295 - 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 210 - 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 ; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how ? — To thy chamber- window, sweet ! The wandering airs, they faint On the dark, the silent stream — The champak odors fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream ; The nightingale's complaint, It dies upon her heart, As I must die on thine, O, beloved as thou art!
Page 237 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 183 - 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 105 - Oh, not of him, but of our joy: 'tis nought That ages, empires, and religions there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought; For such as he can lend, — they borrow not Glory from those who made the world their prey; And he is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away.
Page 237 - That orbed maiden , with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn...
Page 104 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light...
Page 138 - Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
Page 240 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.