Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.The sun is warm, the sky is clear,The waves are dancing fast and bright,Blue isles and snowy mountains wearThe purple ...
I.The sun is warm, the sky is clear,The waves are dancing fast and bright,Blue isles and snowy mountains wearThe purple ...
Death! where is thy victory?To triumph whilst I die,To triumph whilst thine ebon wingEnfolds my shuddering soul?O Death! where is ...
I.'Sleep, sleep on! forget thy pain;My hand is on thy brow,My spirit on thy brain;My pity on thy heart, poor ...
I.Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed; Yes, I was firm -- thus wert not thou;--My baffled looks did fear yet ...
O universal Mother, who dost keepFrom everlasting thy foundations deep,Eldest of things, Great Earth, I sing of thee!All shapes that ...
To me this world's a dreary blank,All hopes in life are gone and fled,My high strung energies are sank,And all ...
Thy look of love has power to calm The stormiest passion of my soul;Thy gentle words are drops of balm In life's ...
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 ...
Amid the desolation of a city,Which was the cradle, and is now the graveOf an extinguished people,-so that PityWeeps o'er ...
I.Corpses are cold in the tomb;Stones on the pavement are dumb;Abortions are dead in the womb,And their mothers look pale-like ...
And said I that all hope was fled,That sorrow and despair were mine,That each enthusiast wish was dead,Had sank beneath ...
I.Thou art fair, and few are fairerOf the Nymphs of earth or ocean;They are robes that fit the wearer--Those soft ...
I.A cat in distress,Nothing more, nor less;Good folks, I must faithfully tell ye,As I am a sinner,It waits for some ...
I.We meet not as we parted,We feel more than all may see;My bosom is heavy-hearted,And thine full of doubt for ...
I.I loved-alas! our life is love;But when we cease to breathe and moveI do suppose love ceases too.I thought, but ...
Fierce roars the midnight stormO'er the wild mountain,Dark clouds the night deform,Swift rolls the fountain--See! o'er yon rocky height,Dim mists ...
If I esteemed you less, Envy would killPleasure, and leave to ...
Lift not the painted veil which those who liveCall Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,And it but mimic all ...
I.A portal as of shadowy adamantStands yawning on the highway of the lifeWhich we all tread, a cavern huge and ...
IWHEN passion's trance is overpast,If tenderness and truth could last,Or live, whilst all wild feelings keepSome mortal slumber, dark and ...
I.That time is dead for ever, child!Drowned, frozen, dead for ever!We look on the pastAnd stare aghastAt the spectres wailing, ...
Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and ThouThree brethren named, the guardians gloomy-wingedOf one abyss, where life, and truth, ...
These are two friends whose lives were undivided;So let their memory be, now they have glidedUnder the grave; let not ...
There is a warm and gentle atmosphereAbout the form of one we love, and thusAs in a tender mist our ...
Ariel to Miranda: -- Take This slave of music, for the sake Of him who is the slave of thee; ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Emily, A ship is floating in the harbour now, A wind is hovering o'er the mountain's brow; There is a ...
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, ...
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