Queen Mab: Part I. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
HOW wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as ...
HOW wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as ...
'How beautiful this night! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this ...
WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MASSACRE AT MANCHESTERI.As I lay asleep in ItalyThere came a voice from over the ...
'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates ...
'Fairy!' the Spirit said, And on the Queen of Spells Fixed her ethereal eyes, 'I thank thee. Thou hast given A boon which I ...
Yet, Freedom, yet, thy banner, torn but flying,Streams like a thunder-storm against the wind.--BYRON.I.A glorious people vibrated againThe lightning of ...
All touch, all eye, all ear, The Spirit felt the Fairy's burning speech. O'er the thin texture of its frame The varying periods ...
'O happy Earth, reality of Heaven! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe, aspire! Thou consummation of all ...
THE FAIRY 'The present and the past thou hast beheld. It was a desolate sight. Now, Spirit, learn, The secrets of the future--Time! Unfold ...
I.Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose,With care his sweet person adorning,He put on his Sunday clothes.II.He drew on a ...
'Tis midnight now--athwart the murky air,Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam;From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare,It shows ...
Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurledDeath, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.See! on yon heath what countless victims ...
What was the shriek that struck Fancy's earAs it sate on the ruins of time that is past?Hark! it floats ...
Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,Who wakens with her smile the lulled delightOf sweet desire, taming the eternal kingsOf ...
From the Greek of Bion.I mourn Adonis dead-loveliest Adonis--Dead, dead Adonis--and the Loves lament.Sleep no more, Venus, wrapped in purple ...
Death! where is thy victory?To triumph whilst I die,To triumph whilst thine ebon wingEnfolds my shuddering soul?O Death! where is ...
And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calmIn cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?Can you, ye flow'rets, spread your perfumed ...
I.Brothers! between you and meWhirlwinds sweep and billows roar:Yet in spirit oft I seeOn thy wild and winding shoreFreedom's bloodless ...
Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody,Muses, who know and rule all minstrelsySing the wide-winged Moon! Around the earth,From her ...
I.God prosper, speed,and save,God raise from England's graveHer murdered Queen!Pave with swift victoryThe steps of Liberty,Whom Britons own to beImmortal ...
I.Shall we roam, my love,To the twilight grove,When the moon is rising bright;Oh, I'll whisper there,In the cool night-air,What I ...
I.Those whom nor power, nor lying faith, nor toil,Nor custom, queen of many slaves, makes blind,Have ever grieved that man ...
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flowThrough public scorn,--mud from a ...
Serene in his unconquerable mightEndued the Almighty King, his steadfast throneEncompassed unapproachably with powerAnd darkness and deep solitude an aweStood ...
I would not be a king--enoughOf woe it is to love;The path to power is steep and rough,And tempests reign ...
Tremble, Kings despised of man!Ye traitors to your Country,Tremble! Your parricidal planAt length shall meet its destiny...We all are soldiers ...
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
SCENE.--A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice. Panthea and Ione areseated ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
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