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... dare belie Their human nature , quake , believe , and cringe Before the mockeries of earthly power . These tools the tyrant tempers to his work , Wields in his wrath , and , as he wills , destroys , Omnipotent in wickedness : the while ...
... dare belie Their human nature , quake , believe , and cringe Before the mockeries of earthly power . These tools the tyrant tempers to his work , Wields in his wrath , and , as he wills , destroys , Omnipotent in wickedness : the while ...
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... dares to spring ; But Poverty and Wealth with equal hand Scatter their withering curses , and unfold The doors of premature and violent death To pining famine and full - fed disease , To all that shares the lot of human life ; Which ...
... dares to spring ; But Poverty and Wealth with equal hand Scatter their withering curses , and unfold The doors of premature and violent death To pining famine and full - fed disease , To all that shares the lot of human life ; Which ...
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... dare babble of a God of peace Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood , — Murdering the while , uprooting every germ Of truth , exterminating , spoiling all , Making the earth a slaughter - house ! O Spirit through the ...
... dare babble of a God of peace Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood , — Murdering the while , uprooting every germ Of truth , exterminating , spoiling all , Making the earth a slaughter - house ! O Spirit through the ...
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... dares not yet chastise ) Reason may claim our gratitude , who now , Establishing the imperishable throne Of truth and stubborn virtue , maketh vain The unprevailing malice of my foe ; Whose bootless rage heaps torments for the brave ...
... dares not yet chastise ) Reason may claim our gratitude , who now , Establishing the imperishable throne Of truth and stubborn virtue , maketh vain The unprevailing malice of my foe ; Whose bootless rage heaps torments for the brave ...
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... dares not give reality to that Whose being I annul . To me is given The wonders of the human world to keep , Space , matter , time , and mind . Futurity Exposes now its treasure ; let the sight Renew and strengthen all thy failing hope ...
... dares not give reality to that Whose being I annul . To me is given The wonders of the human world to keep , Space , matter , time , and mind . Futurity Exposes now its treasure ; let the sight Renew and strengthen all thy failing hope ...
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Page 425 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Page 459 - I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown: I sit upon the sands alone — The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion.
Page 480 - LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle — Why not I with thine...
Page 397 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely. He doth bear 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...
Page 459 - The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing fast and bright, Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent might, The breath of the moist earth is light Around its unexpanded buds; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The city's voice itself, is soft like Solitude's.
Page 239 - Lamp of Earth! where'er thou movest Its dim shapes are clad with brightness, And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing! Asia My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan? doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing...
Page 502 - 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. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, • Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Page 445 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Page 519 - 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...
Page 472 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow ; A people starved and stabbed in the...