Ode to the West Wind and Other PoemsIn 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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... doom Ringing through each heart and brain , Heard again - again - againXCI " Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable numberShake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on youYe are many — they are few .
... doom Ringing through each heart and brain , Heard again - again - againXCI " Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable numberShake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on youYe are many — they are few .
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In the clear golden prime of my youth's dawn , Upon the fairy isles of sunny lawn , Amid the enchanted mountains , and the caves Of divine sleep , and on the air - like waves Of wonder - level dream , whose tremulous floor Paved her ...
In the clear golden prime of my youth's dawn , Upon the fairy isles of sunny lawn , Amid the enchanted mountains , and the caves Of divine sleep , and on the air - like waves Of wonder - level dream , whose tremulous floor Paved her ...
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The moonlight of the expired night asleep , Through which the awakened day can never peep ; A veil for our seclusion , close as night's , Where secure sleep may kill thine innocent lights ; Sleep , the fresh dew of languid love ...
The moonlight of the expired night asleep , Through which the awakened day can never peep ; A veil for our seclusion , close as night's , Where secure sleep may kill thine innocent lights ; Sleep , the fresh dew of languid love ...
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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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Adonais beautiful beneath birth blood blue breath bright clouds cold dark dead dear death deep delight dream earth eternal eyes faint fair fear feet fire flame fled flow flowers follow forest gentle golden grave green grief hear heard heart Heaven hope hour human isles Italy kiss land leaves less light lips living looked lost meet memory MICHIGAN mind Moon morning mountains mournful move never night o'er ocean once pain pale pass POEMS rain round seemed shadow silent sleep smile soft song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spread Spring stars STORIES stream sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought Till tower trembling truth turned UNIVERSITY veil voice wandering waves weak weep wild winds wings woods young