The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Various Additional Pieces from Ms. and Other Sources, Volume 2E. Moxon, 1870 |
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... Bright wanderer , fair coquette of heaven 97. The Triumph of Life Shelley's Note . • SECTION IV . - TRANSLATIONS . HYMNS OF HOMER- Hymn to Mercury ( July 1820 ) To Venus ( 1818 ) To Castor and Pollux To Minerva ˇ To the Sun To the Moon ...
... Bright wanderer , fair coquette of heaven 97. The Triumph of Life Shelley's Note . • SECTION IV . - TRANSLATIONS . HYMNS OF HOMER- Hymn to Mercury ( July 1820 ) To Venus ( 1818 ) To Castor and Pollux To Minerva ˇ To the Sun To the Moon ...
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... bright light of poetry irradiates every thought . The world has a right to the entire compositions of such a man ; for it does not live and thrive by the outworn lesson of the dullard or the hypocrite , but by the original free thoughts ...
... bright light of poetry irradiates every thought . The world has a right to the entire compositions of such a man ; for it does not live and thrive by the outworn lesson of the dullard or the hypocrite , but by the original free thoughts ...
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... bright natures which adorned its prime , And left us nothing to believe in , worth The pains of putting into learned rhyme , A Lady Witch there lived on Atlas mountain Within a cavern by a secret fountain . II . Her mother was one of ...
... bright natures which adorned its prime , And left us nothing to believe in , worth The pains of putting into learned rhyme , A Lady Witch there lived on Atlas mountain Within a cavern by a secret fountain . II . Her mother was one of ...
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... bright sign the billows to indent The sea - deserted sand- ( like children chidden , At her command they ever came and went ) - Since in that cave a dewy splendour hidden Took shape and motion . With the living form Of this embodied ...
... bright sign the billows to indent The sea - deserted sand- ( like children chidden , At her command they ever came and went ) - Since in that cave a dewy splendour hidden Took shape and motion . With the living form Of this embodied ...
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... bright world dim , and everything beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade . No thought of living spirit could abide ( Which to her looks had ever been betrayed ) On any object in the world so wide , On any hope within the ...
... bright world dim , and everything beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade . No thought of living spirit could abide ( Which to her looks had ever been betrayed ) On any object in the world so wide , On any hope within the ...
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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.