It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
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Sow seed, -- but let no tyrant reap;Find wealth, -- let no imposter heap;
Weave robes, -- let not the idle wear;
Forge arms, in your defence to bear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Make once more my heart thy home!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Many faint with toil, That few may know the cares and woe of sloth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whither have fled
The hues of heaven that canopied his bower
Of yesternight?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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