A Dialogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
DEATH:For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,I come, care-worn tenant of life, from the grave,Where Innocence ...
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.Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die,Perchance were death indeed!-Constantia, turn!In thy dark eyes a power like ...
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.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 ...
I.Dares the lama, most fleet of the sons of the wind,The lion to rouse from his skull-covered lair?When the tiger ...
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 waters are flashing,The white hail is dashing,The lightnings are glancing,The hoar-spray is dancing-Away!The whirlwind is rolling,The thunder is tolling,The ...
And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calmIn cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?Can you, ye flow'rets, spread your perfumed ...
Hail to thee, Cambria! for the unfettered windWhich from thy wilds even now methinks I feel,Chasing the clouds that roll ...
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 ...
What! alive and so bold, O Earth?Art thou not overbold?What! leapest thou forth as of oldIn the light of thy ...
I. The cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone; And all around, With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of ...
I.'Sleep, sleep on! forget thy pain;My hand is on thy brow,My spirit on thy brain;My pity on thy heart, poor ...
DAKRYSI DIOISW POTMON APOTMONOh! there are spirits of the air,And genii of the evening breeze,And gentle ghosts, with eyes as ...
I.Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed; Yes, I was firm -- thus wert not thou;--My baffled looks did fear yet ...
Yes! all is past--swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will horror nerve this ...
The wind has swept from the wide atmosphereEach vapour that obscured the sunset's ray;And pallid Evening twines its beaming hairIn ...
Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon,Rapid clouds have drank the last pale beam of even:Away! the gathering winds ...
Arise, arise, arise!There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;Be your wounds like eyesTo weep for the dead, ...
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.Brothers! between you and meWhirlwinds sweep and billows roar:Yet in spirit oft I seeOn thy wild and winding shoreFreedom's bloodless ...
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 ...
Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody,Muses, who know and rule all minstrelsySing the wide-winged Moon! Around the earth,From her ...
I.Fairest of the Destinies,Disarray thy dazzling eyes:Keener far thy lightnings areThan the winged thou bearest,And the smile thou wearestWraps ...
I.Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary,Yet far must the desolate wanderer roam;Though the tempest is stern, ...
To me this world's a dreary blank,All hopes in life are gone and fled,My high strung energies are sank,And all ...
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