The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1855 |
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... soft , and intense , It was felt like an odour within the sense ; And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest , Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast , Till , fold after fold , to the fainting air The soul of her beauty and ...
... soft , and intense , It was felt like an odour within the sense ; And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest , Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast , Till , fold after fold , to the fainting air The soul of her beauty and ...
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... soft stream did glide and With a motion of sweet sound and radiance . And the sinuous paths of lawn and of moss , Which led through the garden along and across , Some open at once to the sun and the breeze , Some lost among bowers of ...
... soft stream did glide and With a motion of sweet sound and radiance . And the sinuous paths of lawn and of moss , Which led through the garden along and across , Some open at once to the sun and the breeze , Some lost among bowers of ...
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... soft moths that kiss The sweet lips of the flowers , and harm not , did she Make her attendant angels be . And many an antenatal tomb , Where butterflies dream of the life to come , She left clinging round the smooth and dark Edge of ...
... soft moths that kiss The sweet lips of the flowers , and harm not , did she Make her attendant angels be . And many an antenatal tomb , Where butterflies dream of the life to come , She left clinging round the smooth and dark Edge of ...
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... soft influence ; extending its tide From the Andes to Atlas , round mountain and isle , Round sea - birds and wrecks , paved with heaven's azure smile , The wide world of waters is vibrating . Where Is the ship ? On the verge of the ...
... soft influence ; extending its tide From the Andes to Atlas , round mountain and isle , Round sea - birds and wrecks , paved with heaven's azure smile , The wide world of waters is vibrating . Where Is the ship ? On the verge of the ...
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... soft waves into thunder ! the screams And hissings crawl fast o'er the smooth ocean- streams , Each sound like a centipede . Near this com- motion , A blue shark is hanging within the blue ocean , The fin - winged tomb of the victor ...
... soft waves into thunder ! the screams And hissings crawl fast o'er the smooth ocean- streams , Each sound like a centipede . Near this com- motion , A blue shark is hanging within the blue ocean , The fin - winged tomb of the victor ...
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Page 166 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 32 - Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love which overflows her bower : Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view : XI.
Page 170 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 173 - I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee ! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night — Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Page 29 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 167 - And many more, whose names on Earth are dark, But whose transmitted effluence cannot die So long as fire outlives the parent spark, Rose, robed in dazzling immortality. " Thou art become as one of us," they cry, " It was for thee yon kingless sphere has long Swung blind in unascended majesty, Silent alone amid an Heaven of Song. Assume thy winged throne, thou Vesper of our throng!
Page 25 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
Page 165 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
Page 27 - I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 31 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...