The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyEdward Moxon, 1840 - 363 páginas |
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... land From kings , and priests , and statesmen , war arose , Whose safety is man's deep unbettered woe , Whose grandeur his debasement . Let the axe Strike at the root , the poison - tree will fall ; And where its venomed exhalations ...
... land From kings , and priests , and statesmen , war arose , Whose safety is man's deep unbettered woe , Whose grandeur his debasement . Let the axe Strike at the root , the poison - tree will fall ; And where its venomed exhalations ...
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... land Is less destroying . They cajole with gold , And promises of fame , the thoughtless youth Already crushed with servitude : he knows His wretchedness too late , and cherishes Repentance for his ruin , when his doom Is sealed in gold ...
... land Is less destroying . They cajole with gold , And promises of fame , the thoughtless youth Already crushed with servitude : he knows His wretchedness too late , and cherishes Repentance for his ruin , when his doom Is sealed in gold ...
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... land ; Whilst innocent babes writhed on thy stubborn spear , And thou didst laugh to hear the mother's shriek Of maniac gladness as the sacred steel Felt cold in her torn entrails ! Religion ! thou wert then in manhood's prime : But age ...
... land ; Whilst innocent babes writhed on thy stubborn spear , And thou didst laugh to hear the mother's shriek Of maniac gladness as the sacred steel Felt cold in her torn entrails ! Religion ! thou wert then in manhood's prime : But age ...
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... land . Yet ever - burning flame and ceaseless woe Shall be the doom of their eternal souls , With every soul on this ungrateful earth , Virtuous or vicious , weak or strong , —even all Shall perish , to fulfil the blind revenge ( Which ...
... land . Yet ever - burning flame and ceaseless woe Shall be the doom of their eternal souls , With every soul on this ungrateful earth , Virtuous or vicious , weak or strong , —even all Shall perish , to fulfil the blind revenge ( Which ...
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... land . Spirit ! no year of my eventful being Has passed unstained by crime and misery , Which flows from God's own faith . I've marked his slaves , With tongues whose lies are venomous , beguile The insensate mob , and , whilst one hand ...
... land . Spirit ! no year of my eventful being Has passed unstained by crime and misery , Which flows from God's own faith . I've marked his slaves , With tongues whose lies are venomous , beguile The insensate mob , and , whilst one hand ...
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AHASUERUS Apennine art thou beams BEATRICE beautiful beneath blood bosom brain breast breath bright burning calm Cenci child clouds cold curse dæmon dark dead death deep delight DEMOGORGON divine doth dream earth eternal EUGANEAN HILLS eyes faint fair fear fire flame flowers gentle gleam grave green grew grey grief hair hate heard heart heaven hope human Italy lady Laon light lips living lone looked Lord Byron LUCRETIA mighty mind moon mountains Naples never night nursling o'er ocean pain pale PANTHEA passion Peter Bell Pisa poem PROMETHEUS Queen Mab rain round sate scorn SEMICHORUS shadow Shelley silent slaves sleep smile soft soul sound spirit stars strange stream sweet swift tears tempest thee thine things thou art thought throne tower truth twas tyrants veil voice wandering waves weep Whilst wild wind wings words
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Página 260 - 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.
Página 259 - Over earth and ocean with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea ; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The spirit he loves remains ; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
Página 299 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Página 292 - Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me ? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side ? Wouldst thou me ? And I replied, No, not thee...
Página 259 - Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine...
Página 289 - Now thou art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais! I would give All that I am to be as thou now art! But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!
Página 260 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine- own kind ? what ignorance of pain...
Página 291 - Here pause: these graves are all too young as yet To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned Its charge to each; and if the seal is set, Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind, Break it not thou!
Página 260 - All the earth and air with thy voice is loud, as when night is bare, from one lonely cloud the moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Página 259 - 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...