Queen Mab: Part V. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates ...
'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates ...
Scene I. Near the place of the damned. Enter Werner and Spirit.Werner.What piercing, stunning sounds assail my ear!Wild shrieks and ...
Olympus' gates unfold: in heaven's high towersAppear in council all the immortal powers;Great Jove above the rest exalted sate,And in ...
You say, as one who shapes a life,That you will never be a wife,And, laughing lightly, ask my aidTo paint ...
Hark! the whetstone raspsAlong the mower's scythe; for now's the timeTo reap the grassy mead,—-ere yet the beeInto the purple ...
ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!Stretch thy dark sceptre o'er this new domainNo sable car along the winding roadHas ...
Oh, Life, I have taken you for my Lover, I rent your veils and I found you fair ;If a fault ...
Sweet the memory is to meOf a land beyond the sea,Where the waves and mountains meet,Where amid her mulberry-treesSits Amalfi ...
I LOVE all things that God has made That show His ordered care and might,But most, I think, I love the ...
The daylight is dying,The Flying fox flying, Amber and amethyst burn in the sky.See, the sun throws a late,Lingering, roseate Kiss to ...
Dead! Found in the desolate streetWhere the drifting snow had silently piledAs if in pity, poor wandering child,To mantle thee ...
Alas, good friend, what profit can you seeIn hating such a hateless thing as me?There is no sport in hate ...
Thou art moulded in marble impassive, False goddess, fair statue of strife,Yet standest on pedestal massive, A symbol and token ...
NOT a sound wak'd the air, not a leaf was in motion;As a mirror of glass was the bosom of ...
THOU, by whose gen'rous mien, whose open brow,Thy unsubdued majestic heart we know;Whose god-like port proclaims thy race divine,Whose smiles ...
Come not in terrors clad, to claim An unresisting prey:Come like an evening shadow, Death! So stealthily, so silently!And ...
Shall Virginia sleep onTill her liberties are gone?Shall the plottings of her foesGo unchecked beneath her nose?Can she, unresisting, seeWomen ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls; Aqueous like floating rays of ...
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