The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text Carefully Revised by William Michael Rossetti, Volume 2John Slark, 1885 |
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... hands , for unrepelled Had Helen taken Rosalind's . Like the autumn wind when it unbinds The tangled locks of the nightshade's hair Which is twined in the sultry summer air Round the walls of an outworn sepulchre , Did the voice of ...
... hands , for unrepelled Had Helen taken Rosalind's . Like the autumn wind when it unbinds The tangled locks of the nightshade's hair Which is twined in the sultry summer air Round the walls of an outworn sepulchre , Did the voice of ...
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... hands and leaped about , Answering each other's exstasy With many a prank and merry shout ; But I sat silent and alone , Wrapped in the mock of mourning - weed . They laughed , for he was dead ; but I Sate with a hard and tearless eye ...
... hands and leaped about , Answering each other's exstasy With many a prank and merry shout ; But I sat silent and alone , Wrapped in the mock of mourning - weed . They laughed , for he was dead ; but I Sate with a hard and tearless eye ...
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... hand , And heard his words - and live ! O God ! Wherefore do I live ? " Hold , hold ! " He cried , " I tell thee ' tis her brother ! Thy mother , boy , beneath the sod Of yon churchyard rests in her shroud so cold . I am now weak and ...
... hand , And heard his words - and live ! O God ! Wherefore do I live ? " Hold , hold ! " He cried , " I tell thee ' tis her brother ! Thy mother , boy , beneath the sod Of yon churchyard rests in her shroud so cold . I am now weak and ...
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... hand held the head , the right— Beyond the veil , beneath the skin , You might see the nerves quivering within- Was forcing the point of a barbèd dart Into its side - convulsing heart . An unskilled hand , yet one informed With genius ...
... hand held the head , the right— Beyond the veil , beneath the skin , You might see the nerves quivering within- Was forcing the point of a barbèd dart Into its side - convulsing heart . An unskilled hand , yet one informed With genius ...
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... hands , Fierce yells , and howlings , and lamentings keen , And laughter where complaint had merrier been , Moans , shrieks , and curses , and blaspheming prayers , Accosted us . We climbed the oozy stairs Into an old courtyard . I ...
... hands , Fierce yells , and howlings , and lamentings keen , And laughter where complaint had merrier been , Moans , shrieks , and curses , and blaspheming prayers , Accosted us . We climbed the oozy stairs Into an old courtyard . I ...
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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.