The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With NotesJames B. Smith, 1860 - 498 pages |
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... grew to meet its hunger . Hesiod says , that , before the time of Prometheus , mankind were exempt from suffering ; that they enjoyed a vigorous youth , and that death , when at length it came , approached like sleep , and gently closed ...
... grew to meet its hunger . Hesiod says , that , before the time of Prometheus , mankind were exempt from suffering ; that they enjoyed a vigorous youth , and that death , when at length it came , approached like sleep , and gently closed ...
Page 138
... grew calm , and I was meek and bold And from that hour did I with earnest thought Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of lore , Yet nothing that my tyrants knew or taught I cared to learn , but from that secret store Wrought linked ...
... grew calm , and I was meek and bold And from that hour did I with earnest thought Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of lore , Yet nothing that my tyrants knew or taught I cared to learn , but from that secret store Wrought linked ...
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... vast clouds fled , Countless and swift as leaves on autumn's tempest shed . For ever , as the war became more fierce Between the whirlwinds and the rack on high , That spot grew more serene ; blue light did pierce 13 THE ...
... vast clouds fled , Countless and swift as leaves on autumn's tempest shed . For ever , as the war became more fierce Between the whirlwinds and the rack on high , That spot grew more serene ; blue light did pierce 13 THE ...
Page 140
... grew , Like a great ship in the sun's sinking sphere Beheld afar at sea , and swift it came anear- Even like a bark , which from a chasm of mountains , Dark , vast , and overhanging , on a river Which there collects the strength of all ...
... grew , Like a great ship in the sun's sinking sphere Beheld afar at sea , and swift it came anear- Even like a bark , which from a chasm of mountains , Dark , vast , and overhanging , on a river Which there collects the strength of all ...
Page 142
... grew pale , Parted , and quivered ; the tears ceased to break From her immovable eyes ; no voice of wail Escaped her ; but she rose , and , on the gale Loosening her star - bright robe and shadowy hair , Poured forth her voice , the ...
... grew pale , Parted , and quivered ; the tears ceased to break From her immovable eyes ; no voice of wail Escaped her ; but she rose , and , on the gale Loosening her star - bright robe and shadowy hair , Poured forth her voice , the ...
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Page 346 - Oh, weep for Adonais!— The quick Dreams, The passion-winged ministers of thought, Who were his flocks, whom near the living streams Of his young spirit he fed, and whom he taught The love which was its music, wander not,— Wander no more, from kindling brain to brain, But droop there, whence they sprung; and mourn their lot Round the cold heart, where, after their sweet pain, They ne'er will gather strength, or find a home again.
Page 345 - Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep Like his a mute and uncomplaining sleep; For he is gone where all things wise and fair Descend. Oh, dream not that the amorous Deep Will yet restore him to the vital air; Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair.
Page 346 - In which suns perished ; others more sublime, Struck by the envious wrath of man or God, Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime ; And some yet live, treading the thorny road, Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode.
Page 356 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 429 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 426 - 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.
Page 74 - How beautiful this night ! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love had spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Page 426 - Over earth and ocean with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move...
Page 346 - The shadow of white Death, and at the door Invisible Corruption waits to trace His extreme way to her dim dwelling-place ; The eternal Hunger sits, but pity and awe Soothe her pale rage, nor dares she to deface So fair a prey, till darkness and the law Of change shall o'er his sleep the mortal curtain draw.
Page 464 - Or the star-beams dart through them. Winds contend Silently there, and heap the snow, with breath Rapid and strong, but silently. Its home The voiceless lightning in these solitudes Keeps innocently, and like vapour broods Over the snow. The secret Strength of Things, Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of heaven is as a law, inhabits thee.