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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... lost for ever : Or like forgotten lyres , whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast , To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last . We rest . — A dream has power to poison ...
... lost for ever : Or like forgotten lyres , whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast , To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last . We rest . — A dream has power to poison ...
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... 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 uniform : And all the while the loud and gusty storm Hissed through the ...
... 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 uniform : And all the while the loud and gusty storm Hissed through the ...
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... lost Without the power to wish it thine again ; And as slow years pass , a funereal train Each with the ghost of some lost hope or friend Following it like its shadow , wilt thou bend No thought on my dead memory ? ' Alas , love ! Fear ...
... lost Without the power to wish it thine again ; And as slow years pass , a funereal train Each with the ghost of some lost hope or friend Following it like its shadow , wilt thou bend No thought on my dead memory ? ' Alas , love ! Fear ...
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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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