Queen Mab: Part VII. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SPIRIT 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met ...
SPIRIT 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
'Tis the terror of tempest. The rags of the sailAre flickering in ribbons within the fierce gale:From the stark night ...
Here, my dear friend, is a new book for you;I have already dedicated twoTo other friends, one female and one ...
'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 ...
Oh! did you observe the Black Canon pass,And did you observe his frown?He goeth to say the midnight mass,In holy ...
Dearest, best and brightest,Come away,To the woods and to the fields!Dearer than this fairest dayWhich, like thee to those in ...
Ariel to Miranda:-- TakeThis slave of music, for the sakeOf him who is the slave of thee;And teach it all ...
I.Now the last day of many days,All beautiful and bright as thou,The loveliest and the last, is dead,Rise, Memory, and ...
Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,Who wakens with her smile the lulled delightOf sweet desire, taming the eternal kingsOf ...
Best and brightest, come away!Fairer far than this fair Day,Which, like thee to those in sorrow,Comes to bid a sweet ...
There late was One within whose subtle being,As light and wind within some delicate cloudThat fades amid the blue noon's ...
If gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains,And racks of subtle torture, if the painsOf shame, of fiery Hell's tempestuous wave,Seen through the ...
I.The billows on the beach are leaping around it,The bark is weak and frail,The sea looks black, and the clouds ...
Art thou indeed forever gone,Forever, ever, lost to me?Must this poor bosom beat alone,Or beat at all, if not for ...
I.The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie,Curtained with star-inwoven tapestries,From the broad moonlight of the sky,Fanning the busy ...
DAKRYSI DIOISW POTMON APOTMONOh! there are spirits of the air,And genii of the evening breeze,And gentle ghosts, with eyes as ...
Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon,Rapid clouds have drank the last pale beam of even:Away! the gathering winds ...
MADDALO, A COURTIER.MALPIGLIO, A POET.PIGNA, A MINISTER.ALBANO, AN USHER.MADDALO:No access to the Duke! You have not saidThat the Count Maddalo ...
I.Fairest of the Destinies,Disarray thy dazzling eyes:Keener far thy lightnings areThan the winged thou bearest,And the smile thou wearestWraps ...
I.Bear witness, Erin! when thine injured isleSees summer on its verdant pastures smile,Its cornfields waving in the winds that sweepThe ...
I.Orphan Hours, the Year is dead,Come and sigh, come and weep!Merry Hours, smile instead,For the Year is but asleep.See, it ...
Tan ala tan glaukan otan onemos atrema Balle--k.t.l.When winds that move not its calm surface sweepThe azure sea, I love ...
Alas, good friend, what profit can you seeIn hating such a hateless thing as me?There is no sport in hate ...
I.The world is now our dwelling-place;Where'er the earth one fading traceOf what was great and free does keep,That is our ...
Ariel to Miranda: -- Take This slave of music, for the sake Of him who is the slave of thee; ...
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