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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... once clothed with life and thought What now moves nor murmurs not . Ay , many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony : To such a one this morn was led , My bark by soft winds piloted : ' Mid the mountains Euganean I stood ...
... once clothed with life and thought What now moves nor murmurs not . Ay , many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony : To such a one this morn was led , My bark by soft winds piloted : ' Mid the mountains Euganean I stood ...
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... once you sat , and now should be But are not . -I demand if ever we — Shall meet as then we met ; —and she replies , Veiling in awe her second - sighted eyes ; ' I know the past alone — but summon home My sister Hope , —she speaks of ...
... once you sat , and now should be But are not . -I demand if ever we — Shall meet as then we met ; —and she replies , Veiling in awe her second - sighted eyes ; ' I know the past alone — but summon home My sister Hope , —she speaks of ...
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... once mingled Love first leaves the well - built nest ; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possessed . O Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle , your home , and your ...
... once mingled Love first leaves the well - built nest ; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possessed . O Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle , your home , and your ...
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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