The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text Carefully Revised by William Michael Rossetti, Volume 2John Slark, 1885 |
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... eyes on her ; Now where some sudden impulse calls Followed . He was a gentle boy , And in all gentle sports took joy . Oft in a dry leaf for a boat , With a small feather for a sail , His fancy on that spring would float , If some ...
... eyes on her ; Now where some sudden impulse calls Followed . He was a gentle boy , And in all gentle sports took joy . Oft in a dry leaf for a boat , With a small feather for a sail , His fancy on that spring would float , If some ...
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... eye , And with a heart which would deny The secret joy it could not quell , Low muttering o'er his loathèd name ... eyes ran With tears which each some falsehood told , And oft his smooth and bridled tongue Would give the lie to his ...
... eye , And with a heart which would deny The secret joy it could not quell , Low muttering o'er his loathèd name ... eyes ran With tears which each some falsehood told , And oft his smooth and bridled tongue Would give the lie to his ...
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... eyes glitter for her sake , Was my vowed task , the single care Which once gave life to my despair- When she was a thing that did not stir , And the crawling worms were cradling her To a sleep more deep and so more sweet Than a baby's ...
... eyes glitter for her sake , Was my vowed task , the single care Which once gave life to my despair- When she was a thing that did not stir , And the crawling worms were cradling her To a sleep more deep and so more sweet Than a baby's ...
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... eyes had shed no tears : But now - ' Twas the season fair and mild When April has wept itself to May : I sate through the sweet sunny day By my window bowered round with leaves , And down my cheeks the quick tears fell Like twinkling ...
... eyes had shed no tears : But now - ' Twas the season fair and mild When April has wept itself to May : I sate through the sweet sunny day By my window bowered round with leaves , And down my cheeks the quick tears fell Like twinkling ...
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... eyes Glimmered among the moonlight dew : Her deep hard sobs and heavy sighs Their echoes in the darkness threw . When she grew calm , she thus did keep The tenor of her tale : - " He died , I know not how . He was not old , If age be ...
... eyes Glimmered among the moonlight dew : Her deep hard sobs and heavy sighs Their echoes in the darkness threw . When she grew calm , she thus did keep The tenor of her tale : - " He died , I know not how . He was not old , If age be ...
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Page 454 - ... 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. - Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! Follow where all is fled! - Rome's azure sky, Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are weak The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak.
Page 371 - twas her own ; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
Page 302 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 376 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 139 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 377 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.
Page 274 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 82 - Dost thou faint, mighty Titan? We laugh thee to scorn. Dost thou boast the clear knowledge thou waken'dst for man? Then was kindled within him a thirst which outran Those perishing waters ; a thirst of fierce fever, Hope, love, doubt, desire, which consume him for ever.
Page 370 - To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came; and bought, with price of purest breath, A grave among the eternal.— Come away!
Page 99 - Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.