A sexless thing it was, and in its growth
It seemed to have developed no defect
Of either sex, yet all the grace of both.
(The Witch Of Atlas)
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while stillHe lies, as if in dewy sleep he lay;
Awake him not!
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Helen, whose spirit was of softer mould,
Whose sufferings too were less, death slowlier led
Into the peace of his dominion cold.
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Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whether my life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
I know not.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Depart not as thy shadow came,
Depart not -- lest the grave should be,
Like life and fear, a dark reality.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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