Love (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Why is it said thou canst not liveIn a youthful breast and fair,Since thou eternal life canst give,Canst bloom for ...
Why is it said thou canst not liveIn a youthful breast and fair,Since thou eternal life canst give,Canst bloom for ...
Ah! grasp the dire dagger and couch the fell spear,If vengeance and death to thy bosom be dear,The dastard shall ...
Come Harriet! sweet is the hour,Soft Zephyrs breathe gently around,The anemone's night-boding flower,Has sunk its pale head on the ground.'Tis ...
I.Dar'st thou amid the varied multitudeTo live alone, an isolated thing?To see the busy beings round thee spring,And care 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 ...
I.Hast thou not seen, officious with delight,Move through the illumined air about the flowerThe Bee, that fears to drink its ...
I.Hopes, that swell in youthful breasts,Live not through the waste of time!Love's rose a host of thorns invests;Cold, ungenial is ...
I.Thou wert not, Cassius, and thou couldst not be,Last of the Romans, though thy memory claimFrom Brutus his own glory--and ...
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 ...
I.They die--the dead return not--MiserySits near an open grave and calls them over,A Youth with hoary hair and haggard eye--They ...
(With what truth may I say--Roma! Roma! Roma!Non e piu come era prima!)I.My lost William, thou in whomSome bright spirit ...
Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome sceneThrough fleecy clouds of silvery radiance fliest,Spanglet of light on evening's shadowy veil,Which ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI:Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I,Led by some strong enchantment, might ascendA magic ship, ...
Lift not the painted veil which those who liveCall Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,And it but mimic all ...
I love thee, Baby! for thine own sweet sake;Those azure eyes, that faintly dimpled cheek,Thy tender frame, so eloquently weak,Love ...
O thou bright Sun! beneath the dark blue lineOf western distance that sublime descendest,And, gleaming lovelier as thy beams decline,Thy ...
I.The flower that smiles to-dayTo-morrow dies;All that we wish to stayTempts and then flies.What is this world's delight?Lightning that mocks ...
From the Greek of Moschus.Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,--Augment your tide, O streams, with fruitless tears,For the beloved ...
I.My faint spirit was sitting in the lightOf thy looks, my love;It panted for thee like the hind at noonFor ...
IWHEN passion's trance is overpast,If tenderness and truth could last,Or live, whilst all wild feelings keepSome mortal slumber, dark and ...
Pan loved his neighbour Echo--but that childOf Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;The Satyr loved with wasting madness ...
Yet look on me -- take not thine eyes away,Which feed upon the love within mine own,Which is indeed but ...
I.One word is too often profanedFor me to profane it,One feeling too falsely disdainedFor thee to disdain it;One hope is ...
I.Wilt thou forget the happy hoursWhich we buried in Love's sweet bowers,Heaping over their corpses coldBlossoms and leaves, instead of ...
I.The rose that drinks the fountain dewIn the pleasant air of noon,Grows pale and blue with altered hue-In the gaze ...
How eloquent are eyes!Not the rapt poet's frenzied layWhen the soul's wildest feelings strayCan speak so well as they.How eloquent ...
A gentle story of two lovers young,Who met in innocence and died in sorrow,And of one selfish heart, whose rancour ...
I would not be a king--enoughOf woe it is to love;The path to power is steep and rough,And tempests reign ...
I.When a lover clasps his fairest,Then be our dread sport the rarest.Their caresses were like the chaffIn the tempest, and ...
I.In the cave which wild weeds coverWait for thine aethereal lover;For the pallid moon is waning,O'er the spiral cypress hangingAnd ...
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