The Spectral Horseman (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
What was the shriek that struck Fancy's earAs it sate on the ruins of time that is past?Hark! it floats ...
What was the shriek that struck Fancy's earAs it sate on the ruins of time that is past?Hark! it floats ...
FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.I.Ye who intelligent the Third Heaven move,Hear the discourse which is within my heart,Which cannot be ...
Best and brightest, come away!Fairer far than this fair Day,Which, like thee to those in sorrow,Comes to bid a sweet ...
I.The serpent is shut out from Paradise.The wounded deer must seek the herb no moreIn which its heart-cure lies:The widowed ...
I.Come, be happy!-sit near me,Shadow-vested Misery:Coy, unwilling, silent bride,Mourning in thy robe of pride,Desolation-deified!II.Come, be happy!-sit near me:Sad as I ...
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 ...
Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling,Cold are the damps on a dying man's brow,--Stern are the seas ...
DEATH:For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,I come, care-worn tenant of life, from the grave,Where Innocence ...
...And many there were hurt by that strong boy,His name, they said, was Pleasure,And near him stood, glorious beyond measureFour ...
I.Oh! take the pure gem to where southerly breezes,Waft repose to some bosom as faithful as fair,In which the warm ...
I.It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky,Upon the cloudy mountain-peak supine;Below, far lands are seen tremblingly;Its horror and its beauty ...
Art thou indeed forever gone,Forever, ever, lost to me?Must this poor bosom beat alone,Or beat at all, if not for ...
And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calmIn cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?Can you, ye flow'rets, spread your perfumed ...
DAKRYSI DIOISW POTMON APOTMONOh! there are spirits of the air,And genii of the evening breeze,And gentle ghosts, with eyes as ...
Yes! all is past--swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will horror nerve this ...
Is it the Eternal Triune, is it HeWho dares arrest the wheels of destinyAnd plunge me in the lowest Hell ...
O universal Mother, who dost keepFrom everlasting thy foundations deep,Eldest of things, Great Earth, I sing of thee!All shapes that ...
I.Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary,Yet far must the desolate wanderer roam;Though the tempest is stern, ...
Thy look of love has power to calm The stormiest passion of my soul;Thy gentle words are drops of balm In life's ...
Stern, stern is the voice of fate's fearful command,When accents of horror it breathes in our ear,Or compels us for ...
Amid the desolation of a city,Which was the cradle, and is now the graveOf an extinguished people,-so that PityWeeps o'er ...
I.Moonbeam, leave the shadowy vale,To bathe this burning brow.Moonbeam, why art thou so pale,As thou walkest o'er the dewy dale,Where ...
And said I that all hope was fled,That sorrow and despair were mine,That each enthusiast wish was dead,Had sank beneath ...
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.Maiden, quench the glare of sorrowStruggling in thine haggard eye:Firmness dare to borrowFrom the wreck of destiny;For the ray morn's ...
I.Swifter far than summer's flight--Swifter far than youth's delight--Swifter far than happy night,Art thou come and gone--As the earth when ...
I.'Do you not hear the Aziola cry?Methinks she must be nigh,'Said Mary, as we sateIn dusk, ere stars were lit, ...
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 ...
Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of evenSilently takest thine aethereal way,And with surpassing glory dimm'st each rayTwinkling ...
From the Greek of Moschus.Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,--Augment your tide, O streams, with fruitless tears,For the beloved ...
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