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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... never to be undone With wondering self - compassion ; then his speech Was lost in grief , and then his words came each Unmodulated , cold , expressionless , — But that from one jarred accent you might guess It was despair made them so ...
... never to be undone With wondering self - compassion ; then his speech Was lost in grief , and then his words came each Unmodulated , cold , expressionless , — But that from one jarred accent you might guess It was despair made them so ...
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... Never one Humbled himself before , as I have done ! Even the instinctive worm on which we tread Turns , though it ... never seen me - never heard My voice , and more than all had ne'er endured The deep pollution of my loathed embrace ...
... Never one Humbled himself before , as I have done ! Even the instinctive worm on which we tread Turns , though it ... never seen me - never heard My voice , and more than all had ne'er endured The deep pollution of my loathed embrace ...
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... never kiss the sun ; Where the lawns and pastures be , And the sandhills of the sea ; - Where the melting hoar - frost wets The daisy - star that never sets , And wind - flowers , and violets , Which yet join not scent to hue , Crown ...
... never kiss the sun ; Where the lawns and pastures be , And the sandhills of the sea ; - Where the melting hoar - frost wets The daisy - star that never sets , And wind - flowers , and violets , Which yet join not scent to hue , Crown ...
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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