The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published, Volume 4Reeves and Turner, 1880 |
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Ahasuerus ANTISTROPHE art thou beauty beneath bosom breath bright cave CHORUS clouds cold collected editions CYCLOPS CYPRIAN DÆMON dark dead dear death deep delight divine dream earlier version earth edition of 1839 eternal eyes faint fair FAUST fear flowers FRAGMENT Fraser's Magazine Garnett gentle Ginevra given hast heart heaven hour human immortal kiss leaves Leigh Hunt light living Medwin MEPHISTOPHELES mighty mind moon mortal mountains never night o'er pale Posthumous Poems printed Queen Mab Relics of Shelley Rossetti substitutes Rossetti's edition second edition seems SEMICHORUS Shelley Papers Shelley's editions silent SILENUS sleep smile song sonnet Sophia Stacey soul spirit stanza stars sweet swift terza rima thee thine things thou art thought throne tion translation Trelawny's ULYSSES verses voice wandering waves weep Whilst wild wind word καὶ
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Page 6 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 24 - 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.
Page 88 - I can give not what men call love : But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above, And the Heavens reject not : The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Page 132 - Its passions will rock thee As the storms rock the ravens on high : Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come.
Page 29 - ARETHUSA arose From her couch of snows In the Acroceraunian mountains, — From cloud and from crag, With many a jag, Shepherding her bright fountains. She leapt down the rocks, With her rainbow locks Streaming among the streams; — Her steps paved with green The downward ravine Which slopes to the western gleams: And gliding and springing She went, ever singing, In murmurs as soft as sleep; The earth seemed to love her, And Heaven smiled above her, As she lingered towards the deep.
Page 5 - Sow seed, — but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth, — let no impostor heap; Weave robes, — let not the idle wear; Forge arms, — in your defence to bear.
Page 77 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 36 - Liquid Peneus was flowing, And all dark Tempe lay In Pelion's shadow, outgrowing The light of the dying day, Speeded by my sweet pipings. The Sileni, and Sylvans, and Fauns, And the Nymphs of the woods and waves...
Page 77 - RARELY, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day 'Tis since thou art fled away. How shall ever one like me Win thee back again?
Page 519 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark. A lazar-house it seemed : wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs. Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs...