The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Various Additional Pieces from Ms. and Other Sources, Volume 1 |
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I cannot but be conscious , in much of what I write , of an absence of that tranquillity which is the attribute and accompaniment of power . " .... Other important observations are as follows : ( I give the first merely as being the ...
I cannot but be conscious , in much of what I write , of an absence of that tranquillity which is the attribute and accompaniment of power . " .... Other important observations are as follows : ( I give the first merely as being the ...
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Yet after all I cannot but be conscious , in much of what I write , of an absence of that tranquillity which is the attribute and accompaniment of power . This feeling alone would make your most kind and wise admonitions , on the ...
Yet after all I cannot but be conscious , in much of what I write , of an absence of that tranquillity which is the attribute and accompaniment of power . This feeling alone would make your most kind and wise admonitions , on the ...
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Page 334 - On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept ; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. 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 ! One of these awakened me, And I sped to succour thee.
Page 349 - Hidden beneath the mountains and the waves. He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe...
Page 331 - They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Page 85 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Page 297 - Through mist, an heaven-sustaining bulwark reared Between the East and West ; and half the sky Was roofed with clouds of rich emblazonry Dark purple at the zenith, which still grew Down the steep West into a wondrous hue Brighter than burning gold, even to the rent Where the swift sun yet paused in his descent Among the many-folded hills : they were Those famous Euganean hills, which bear, As seen from Lido thro...
Page 322 - Prometheus. It doth repent me: words are quick and vain; Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine. I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
Page 503 - The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless. Exempt from awe, worship degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise...
Page 321 - Rain then thy plagues upon me here, Ghastly disease, and frenzying fear ; And let alternate frost and fire Eat into me, and be thine ire Lightning, and cutting hail, and legioned forms Of furies, driving by upon the wounding storms. Ay, do thy worst ! Thou art omnipotent. O'er all things but thyself I gave thee power, And my own will.
Page 103 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth ; through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes; nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades, Suspended he that task, but ever gazed And gazed, till meaning on his vacant mind Flashed like strong inspiration, and he saw The thrilling secrets of the birth of time.
Page 373 - Kindling with mingled sounds, and many tones, Intelligible words and music wild. With mighty whirl the multitudinous orb Grinds the bright brook into an azure mist Of elemental subtlety, like light ; And the wild odour of the forest flowers, The music of the living grass and air...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Various Additional Pieces from Ms. and Other Sources, Volume 1 Issue 5 of Moxon's popular poets The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Various Additional Pieces from Ms. and Other Sources, William Michael Rossetti |
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Editor | William Michael Rossetti |
| Publisher | E. Moxon, 1870 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2006 |
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