War (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurledDeath, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.See! on yon heath what countless victims ...
Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurledDeath, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.See! on yon heath what countless victims ...
Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:'Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My ...
I come, blood on blood,like the sea, wave on wave.I have a soul the colour of poppies.The luckless poppy is ...
The Desert sands are heated, parched and dreary, The tigers rend alive their quivering preyIn the near Jungle; here the kites ...
"ISLAND of Destiny! Innisfail!" they cried, when their weary eyesFirst looked on thy beauteous bosom from the amorous, ocean rise."Island ...
For three long months continues the bombardment.The bloodstained Malakov withstands it still.The hoarse-voiced drum drives on the British redcoats.Once more ...
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight hereExalts the vast and busy LibraryAnd seems to set the bookshelves back in ...
THERE once was a pirate, greedy and bold,Who ravaged for gain, and saved the spoils;Till his coffers were bursting with ...
Your faces haunt me from the printed pages,The roll call of our valiant English dead;What woman's hands, I wonder, clung ...
Ancient night and the unruly saltbeat at the walls of my house.The shadow is all one, the skythrobs now along ...
a death's headfrom which falls awaya black soutane,he conducts meand the three withered nunsfrom Pamplonathrough his catacomb of horrors.Complete with ...
O Cross you divide the heart,O Cross you split the world,Cross divine and wood of bitterness,Bloodstained price of the Beatitudes,Royal ...
Deep in the soul there throbs the secret pain Of one homesick for dear familiar things, When Spring winds rock ...
Before my time my kindred were As felons in their land, Because they claimed the liberty That freemen understand. Ere ...
September 9, 1898Glory for these glad tidings, far and near, That come to-day across the plunging main;Shattered the Dervish ...
For some the river of life would seem Free from the shallow, the reef, or bar,As they gently glide down ...
The phantoms flit before our dazzled eyes, Glory and honour, wrath and righteousness, The ag?d phantoms in their bloodstained dress, ...
" Go, heap against your native race Slander on slander, lie on lie; Go, trumpet in God's sacred places Your ...
From pride and foolish confidence,From every waking creed,From the dread fear of fearing,Protect us, Lord, and lead. Great God, who, ...
Where tempests roar and nature is unkind: Such was our land since Samo's rule had passed With Samo's spirit - ...
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
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