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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... thee in prayer in my sore need . Oh , lift me as a wave , a leaf , a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless , and swift , and proud . V Make me thy ...
... thee in prayer in my sore need . Oh , lift me as a wave , a leaf , a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless , and swift , and proud . V Make me thy ...
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... thee These votive wreaths of withered memory . Poor captive bird ! who , from thy narrow cage , Pourest such music , that it might assuage The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee , Were they not deaf to all sweet melody ; This song ...
... thee These votive wreaths of withered memory . Poor captive bird ! who , from thy narrow cage , Pourest such music , that it might assuage The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee , Were they not deaf to all sweet melody ; This song ...
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... thee now Flash , lightning - like , with unaccustomed glow ; I pray thee that thou blot from this sad song All of its much mortality and wrong , With those clear drops , which start like sacred dew From the twin lights thy sweet soul ...
... thee now Flash , lightning - like , with unaccustomed glow ; I pray thee that thou blot from this sad song All of its much mortality and wrong , With those clear drops , which start like sacred dew From the twin lights thy sweet soul ...
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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