From Vergil’s Fourth Georgic (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountainsStood, and received him in its mighty portalAnd led him through the ...
And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountainsStood, and received him in its mighty portalAnd led him through the ...
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
Beside that giant stream that foams and swellsBetwixt Hy-Conaill and Moyarta's shore,And guards the isle where good Senanus dwells,A gentle ...
Going, going! the voice was loud, And, rising, silenced the chattering crowd. "Going! going! shall it be gone?" The auctioneer ...
In the liquid vault of ether hung the starry gems of light, Blazing with unwonted splendor on the ebon ...
In the liquid vault of ether hung the starry gems of light, Blazing with unwonted splendor on the ebon ...
This is the land!It lies outstretched a vision of delight,Bent like a shield between the silver seasIt flashes back the ...
The heirs of cultured ages, we Fashioned an idol for all to see. We all could see or thought we ...
HATH Wisdom made thee weep? Be yet more wise, And sing for joy. The blind man, gaining sight, Says haply, ...
A gray-roof'd church on a hill, set in the sound of the waves, Hearing them all day long on ...
O Lord, if on the wind, at cool of day,I heard one whispered word of mighty grace;If through the darkness, ...
WHEN I remember with what buoyant heart, Midst war's alarms and woes of civil strife, In youthful eagerness, thou didst ...
Tumultuous rushing o'er the outstretched plains;A wildered maze of comets and of suns;The blood of changeless God that ever runsWith ...
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
When, foot to wheel and back to wind, The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass-light, The ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Once a dream did weave a shade, O'er my Angel-guarded bed. That an Emmet lost it's way Where on grass ...
In a strange town in a far land They met amid a throng; They stared, they could not understand How ...
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane, Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
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