The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Original Editions...Chatto & Windus, 1875 |
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... stream , the lake , and the waterfall . Ill health and continual pain preyed upon his powers , and the solitude in which we lived , particularly on our first arrival in Italy , although congenial to his feelings , must frequently have ...
... stream , the lake , and the waterfall . Ill health and continual pain preyed upon his powers , and the solitude in which we lived , particularly on our first arrival in Italy , although congenial to his feelings , must frequently have ...
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... stream Of people there was hurrying to and fro , Numerous as gnats upon the evening gleam , All hastening onward , yet none seem'd to know Whither he went , or whence he came , or why He made one of the multitude , and so Was borne amid ...
... stream Of people there was hurrying to and fro , Numerous as gnats upon the evening gleam , All hastening onward , yet none seem'd to know Whither he went , or whence he came , or why He made one of the multitude , and so Was borne amid ...
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... stream The music of their ever - moving wings . All the four faces of that charioteer Had their eyes banded ; little profit brings Speed in the van and blindness in the rear , Nor then avail the beams that quench the sun Or that with ...
... stream The music of their ever - moving wings . All the four faces of that charioteer Had their eyes banded ; little profit brings Speed in the van and blindness in the rear , Nor then avail the beams that quench the sun Or that with ...
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... soothed by mischief since the world begun , Throw back their heads and loose their streaming hair ; nAd in their dance round her who dims the sun , Maidens and youths fling their wild arms in air As 20 POSTHUMOUS POEMS .
... soothed by mischief since the world begun , Throw back their heads and loose their streaming hair ; nAd in their dance round her who dims the sun , Maidens and youths fling their wild arms in air As 20 POSTHUMOUS POEMS .
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... stream That whisper'd with delight to be its pillow . ' As one enamour'd is upborne in dream O'er lily - paven lakes mid silver mist , To wondrous music , so this shape might seem " Partly to tread the waves with feet which kiss'd The ...
... stream That whisper'd with delight to be its pillow . ' As one enamour'd is upborne in dream O'er lily - paven lakes mid silver mist , To wondrous music , so this shape might seem " Partly to tread the waves with feet which kiss'd The ...
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