The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text Carefully Revised by William Michael Rossetti, Volume 2John Slark, 1885 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 87
Page 15
... things men say , or deem That they are other than they seem . " All present who those crimes did hear , In feigned or actual scorn and fear- Men , women , children - slunk away , Whispering with self - contented pride Which half ...
... things men say , or deem That they are other than they seem . " All present who those crimes did hear , In feigned or actual scorn and fear- Men , women , children - slunk away , Whispering with self - contented pride Which half ...
Page 16
... things strong and bright and pure , And ever during , aye endure . Who knows , if one were buried there , But these things might our spirits make , Amid the all - surrounding air , Their own eternity partake ? ' Then ' twas a wild and ...
... things strong and bright and pure , And ever during , aye endure . Who knows , if one were buried there , But these things might our spirits make , Amid the all - surrounding air , Their own eternity partake ? ' Then ' twas a wild and ...
Page 18
... things ever . Then He passed amid the strife of men , And stood at the throne of armèd power , Pleading for a world of woe . Secure as one on a rock - built tower O'er the wrecks which the surge trails to and fro , Mid the passions wild ...
... things ever . Then He passed amid the strife of men , And stood at the throne of armèd power , Pleading for a world of woe . Secure as one on a rock - built tower O'er the wrecks which the surge trails to and fro , Mid the passions wild ...
Page 21
... things else none may express Its innocence and tenderness . ' Twas said that he had refuge sought In love from his unquiet thought In distant lands , and been deceived By some strange show ; for there were found , Blotted with tears ...
... things else none may express Its innocence and tenderness . ' Twas said that he had refuge sought In love from his unquiet thought In distant lands , and been deceived By some strange show ; for there were found , Blotted with tears ...
Page 26
... things That walk the air on subtle wings , Floated and mingled far away , Mid the warm winds of the sunny day . And , when the evening star came forth Above the curve of the new bent moon , And light and sound ebbed from the earth ...
... things That walk the air on subtle wings , Floated and mingled far away , Mid the warm winds of the sunny day . And , when the evening star came forth Above the curve of the new bent moon , And light and sound ebbed from the earth ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adonais Ahasuerus Beatrice beautiful beneath Bernardo blood Boeotia breath bright calm Cenci CHORUS clouds cold Colonna Palace curse dæmons dare dark dead death deep delight Demogorgon dream earth editions eternal eyes faint fear flowers gentle Giacomo Gisborne grave Greece Greek grey hair Hassan hear heard heart heaven hell hope innocent Iona Leigh Hunt light limbs living look Lord Lord Byron Lucretia Maddalo Mahmud Mammon Marzio Masque of Anarchy mighty mind Minotaur moon mountains never night o'er ocean Orsino pain pale Panthea Peter Bell Pigs poem poet Prometheus Pyrganax rhyme round ruin SEMICHORUS shadow Shelley Shelley's slaves sleep smile soul sound speak spirit splendour stanza stars storm sweet Swellfoot swift Swine tears Thebes thee Thermæ thine things thou art thought tremble truth tyrants veil victory voice Wallachia weep wind wings words
Popular passages
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.