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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... Sits beside the helm again . a Other flowering isles must be In the sea of Life and Agony : Other spirits float and Alee O'er that gulf : even now , perhaps , On some rock the wild wave wraps , With folded wings they waiting sit For ...
... Sits beside the helm again . a Other flowering isles must be In the sea of Life and Agony : Other spirits float and Alee O'er that gulf : even now , perhaps , On some rock the wild wave wraps , With folded wings they waiting sit For ...
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... And glare with lightnings as they fly , And speak in thunder to the sky , XXVIII It grew — a Shape arrayed in mail Brighter than the viper's scale , And upborne on wings whose grain Was as the light of sunny rain .
... And glare with lightnings as they fly , And speak in thunder to the sky , XXVIII It grew — a Shape arrayed in mail Brighter than the viper's scale , And upborne on wings whose grain Was as the light of sunny rain .
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And when Sunset may breathe , from the lit sea beneath , Its ardours of rest and of love , And the crimson pall of eve may fall From the depth of Heaven above , With wings folded I rest , on mine aëry nest , As still as a brooding dove ...
And when Sunset may breathe , from the lit sea beneath , Its ardours of rest and of love , And the crimson pall of eve may fall From the depth of Heaven above , With wings folded I rest , on mine aëry nest , As still as a brooding dove ...
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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
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| Title | Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry |
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Dover Publications, 1993 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0486275582, 9780486275581 |
| Length | 128 pages |
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