Marianne’s Dream (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
1.A pale Dream came to a Lady fair,And said, A boon, a boon, I pray!I know the secrets of the ...
1.A pale Dream came to a Lady fair,And said, A boon, a boon, I pray!I know the secrets of the ...
"Oh! spare dual idols of the past, Whose lips are dumb, whose eyes are dim; Truth's diadem is not for himWho comes, ...
What ogive gates from gold of Ophir wrought, What walls of bastioned Parian, lucid rose, What marts of crystal, for the eyes ...
Leafless are the trees; their purple branchesSpread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral, Rising silentIn the Red Sea of the winter ...
The spare professor, grave and bald,Began his paper. It was called,I think, 'A Brief Historic GlanceAt Russia, Germany, and France.'A ...
Dream of splendour, bright and gay, Disenchanted all too soon,Dimly fading fast away Like a half-remember'd tune,—Lo! my spirit's heart is sad For ...
Ah, Koelue!Had you embalmed your beauty, soIt could not backward go,Or change in any way,What were the use, if on ...
Ah, Koelue!Had you embalmed your beauty, soIt could not backward go,Or change in any way,What were the use, if on ...
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
Pennsylvania, 1948-1949The garden of Nature opens. The grass at the threshold is green. And an almond tree begins to bloom. ...
A CHILD of the hard-hearted world was I, And a worldling callous of heart,And eager to play with the ...
When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low ...
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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