Ode to the West Wind and Other PoemsDover Publications, 1993 M03 30 - 128 pages In the pantheon of English poets, Shelley has long occupied a lofty place, his poems as admired for their profound thought and subtle perceptions as for the music and fervor of their language. His life as well as his poetry embraced the passions, ideals, and causes of Romanticism, whose emergence and early influences coincided with the dates of his own brief life (1792–1822). This selection of many of Shelley’s best-known and most representative poems will give readers an exciting encounter with one of the most original and stimulating figures in English poetry. Thirty-seven poems of varying lengths are included, among them such well-known verses as "Adonais," "Ode to the West Wind," "Ozymandias," "The Cloud," "To a Skylark," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," and "Arethusa." |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after , And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . Yet if we could scorn Hate , and pride ...
... flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after , And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . Yet if we could scorn Hate , and pride ...
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... flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came , A portion of the Eternal , which must glow Through time and change , unquenchably the same , Whilst thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame . XXXIX Peace , peace ! he is not ...
... flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came , A portion of the Eternal , which must glow Through time and change , unquenchably the same , Whilst thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame . XXXIX Peace , peace ! he is not ...
Contents
April 1814 1814 | 1 |
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples 1818 | 15 |
Song to the Men of England 1819 | 33 |
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