The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose: Now First Together with Many Pieces Not Before PublishedReeves and Turner, 1880 |
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... feel that she has done what needs justifi- cation ; it is in the superstitious horror with which they contemplate alike her wrongs and their revenge ; that the dramatic character of what she did and suffered , consists . I have ...
... feel that she has done what needs justifi- cation ; it is in the superstitious horror with which they contemplate alike her wrongs and their revenge ; that the dramatic character of what she did and suffered , consists . I have ...
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... feeling , which raises what is low , and levels to the apprehension that which is lofty , casting over all the shadow of its own greatness . In other respects , I have written more carelessly ; that is , without an over- fastidious and ...
... feeling , which raises what is low , and levels to the apprehension that which is lofty , casting over all the shadow of its own greatness . In other respects , I have written more carelessly ; that is , without an over- fastidious and ...
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... feel- Flattering their secret peace with others'1 pain . But I delight in nothing else . I love The sight of agony , and the sense of joy , When this shall be another's , and that mine . And I have no remorse and little fear , Which are ...
... feel- Flattering their secret peace with others'1 pain . But I delight in nothing else . I love The sight of agony , and the sense of joy , When this shall be another's , and that mine . And I have no remorse and little fear , Which are ...
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... feel my spirits fail With thinking what I have decreed to do.- ( Drinking the wine ) Be thou the resolution of quick youth Within my veins , and manhood's purpose stern , And age's firm , cold , subtle villainy ; As if thou wert indeed ...
... feel my spirits fail With thinking what I have decreed to do.- ( Drinking the wine ) Be thou the resolution of quick youth Within my veins , and manhood's purpose stern , And age's firm , cold , subtle villainy ; As if thou wert indeed ...
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... horror : if there be a sun in heaven She shall not dare to look upon its beams ; Nor feel its warmth . Let her then wish for night ; 170 175 180 185 The act I think shall soon extinguish all For me SCENE 1. ] 45 THE CENCI .
... horror : if there be a sun in heaven She shall not dare to look upon its beams ; Nor feel its warmth . Let her then wish for night ; 170 175 180 185 The act I think shall soon extinguish all For me SCENE 1. ] 45 THE CENCI .
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Page 296 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 301 - Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight Like a star of Heaven, In the broad daylight Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight, 20 Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see — we feel that it is there.
Page 297 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent...
Page 293 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.
Page 297 - The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning star shines dead ; As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit In the light of its golden wings. And when Sunset may breathe, from the lit...
Page 302 - Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.
Page 298 - Till the calm rivers, lakes and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the moon and these. I bind the sun's throne with a burning zone, And the moon's with a girdle of pearl ; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
Page 296 - 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. Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder.
Page 181 - He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be : But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.
Page 302 - 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. Like a highborn maiden in a palace tower, soothing her love-laden soul in secret hour with music sweet as love, which overflows her bower.