The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Original Editions...Chatto & Windus, 1875 |
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... land an island of the blest , When lamp - like Spain , who now relumes her fire On Freedom's hearth , grew dim with Empire : - With thumbscrews , wheels , with tooth and spike and jag , Which fishes found under the utmost crag Of ...
... land an island of the blest , When lamp - like Spain , who now relumes her fire On Freedom's hearth , grew dim with Empire : - With thumbscrews , wheels , with tooth and spike and jag , Which fishes found under the utmost crag Of ...
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... land which now is free , And wing'd with thoughts of truth and majesty , Flits round the tyrant's sceptre like a cloud , And bursts the peopled prisons , and cries aloud , " My name is Legion ! " — that majestic tongue Which Calderon ...
... land which now is free , And wing'd with thoughts of truth and majesty , Flits round the tyrant's sceptre like a cloud , And bursts the peopled prisons , and cries aloud , " My name is Legion ! " — that majestic tongue Which Calderon ...
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... land . But what see you beside ? A shabby stand Of hackney - coaches — a brick house or wall , Fencing some lonely court , white with the scrawl Of our unhappy politics ; -or worse- A wretched woman reeling by , whose curse Mix'd with ...
... land . But what see you beside ? A shabby stand Of hackney - coaches — a brick house or wall , Fencing some lonely court , white with the scrawl Of our unhappy politics ; -or worse- A wretched woman reeling by , whose curse Mix'd with ...
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... land to land . Not his the load of any secret crime , For nought of ill his heart could understand , But pity and wild sorrow for the same ; — Not his the thirst for glory or command Baffled with blast of hope - consuming shame ; Nor ...
... land to land . Not his the load of any secret crime , For nought of ill his heart could understand , But pity and wild sorrow for the same ; — Not his the thirst for glory or command Baffled with blast of hope - consuming shame ; Nor ...
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... land to land re - echo'd solemnly , Till silence became music ? From the Æean * To the cold Alps , eternal Italy Starts to hear thine ! The Sea Which paves the desert streets of Venice laughs In light and music ; widow'd Genoa wan By ...
... land to land re - echo'd solemnly , Till silence became music ? From the Æean * To the cold Alps , eternal Italy Starts to hear thine ! The Sea Which paves the desert streets of Venice laughs In light and music ; widow'd Genoa wan By ...
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