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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... hope ? III No voice from some sublimer world hath ever To sage or poet these responses given— Therefore the names of Demon , Ghost , and Heaven , Remain the records of their vain endeavour , Frail spells - whose uttered charm might not ...
... hope ? III No voice from some sublimer world hath ever To sage or poet these responses given— Therefore the names of Demon , Ghost , and Heaven , Remain the records of their vain endeavour , Frail spells - whose uttered charm might not ...
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... Hope and Fear - upon the heart are piled Their offerings , —of this sacrifice divine A World shall be the altar . Lady mine , Scorn not these flowers of thought , the fading birth Which from its heart of hearts that plant puts forth ...
... Hope and Fear - upon the heart are piled Their offerings , —of this sacrifice divine A World shall be the altar . Lady mine , Scorn not these flowers of thought , the fading birth Which from its heart of hearts that plant puts forth ...
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... hope has kindled hope , and lured thee to the brink . XLVIII Or go to Rome , which is the sepulchre , Oh , not of him , but of our joy : ' tis nought That ages , empires , and religions there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought ...
... hope has kindled hope , and lured thee to the brink . XLVIII Or go to Rome , which is the sepulchre , Oh , not of him , but of our joy : ' tis nought That ages , empires , and religions there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought ...
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April 1814 1814 | 1 |
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples 1818 | 15 |
Song to the Men of England 1819 | 33 |
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