The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with His Life, Volumen1J. Ascham, 1834 - 1004 páginas |
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... youth- ful to an extraordinary degree . Such was his love for nature , that every page of his poetry is associated in the minds of his friends with the loveliest scenes of the countries which he inhabited . In early life he visited the ...
... youth- ful to an extraordinary degree . Such was his love for nature , that every page of his poetry is associated in the minds of his friends with the loveliest scenes of the countries which he inhabited . In early life he visited the ...
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... youth with hoary hair , And sate on the seat beside him there , Till a naked child came wandering by , When the fiend would change to a lady fair ! A fearful tale ! The truth was worse ; For here a sister and a brother Had solemnized a ...
... youth with hoary hair , And sate on the seat beside him there , Till a naked child came wandering by , When the fiend would change to a lady fair ! A fearful tale ! The truth was worse ; For here a sister and a brother Had solemnized a ...
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... youth's natural lightness gay , Or if they listened to some tale Of travellers , or of fairy land , - When the light from the wood - fire's dying brand Flashed on their faces , -if they heard Or thought they heard upon the stair His ...
... youth's natural lightness gay , Or if they listened to some tale Of travellers , or of fairy land , - When the light from the wood - fire's dying brand Flashed on their faces , -if they heard Or thought they heard upon the stair His ...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley. To shed on the brief flower of youth The withering knowledge of the grave ; From me remorse then wrung that truth . I could not bear the joy which gave Too just a response to mine own . In vain . I dared not feign a ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley. To shed on the brief flower of youth The withering knowledge of the grave ; From me remorse then wrung that truth . I could not bear the joy which gave Too just a response to mine own . In vain . I dared not feign a ...
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... to my knees with silent breath , And sate awe - stricken at my feet ; And soon the others left their play , And sate there too . It is unmeet To shed on the brief flower of youth The withering 18 ROSALIND AND HELEN .
... to my knees with silent breath , And sate awe - stricken at my feet ; And soon the others left their play , And sate there too . It is unmeet To shed on the brief flower of youth The withering 18 ROSALIND AND HELEN .
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Términos y frases comunes
ANTISTROPHE art thou azure Baubo beams beautiful beneath bowers brain breath bright burning calm cave cavern chidden Chorus city of death clouds cold cradle Cyclops Cyprian Dæmon dark dead death deep delight divine dream earth EPODE eyes faint fair Faust fear fire flowers folded palm gaze gentle golden air grave green grew grey grief hair heart heaven Hermes hope isles kiss lady leaves light limbs lips living lone love waves Meph mighty mind moon mortal mountains never night o'er ocean odour Onchestus pale rocks round sate scorn shadow silent sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit stars strange stream sweet tears tempest thee thine things thou art thought Tmolus tower truth Ulys veil voice wandering waves weep wept western isles Whilst wild wind wind-flowers wings woods words youth
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Página 70 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; — To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 35 - While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed ; I was not heard : I saw them not. When musing deeply on the lot Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, Sudden thy shadow fell on me — I shrieked, and clasped my hands in...
Página 69 - O, lift me from the grass! I die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas ! My heart beats loud and fast: Oh! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last ! Very few, perhaps, are familiar with these lines — yet no less a poet than Shelley is their author.
Página 48 - Our breath shall intermix, our bosoms bound, And our veins beat together; and our lips, With o'ther eloquence than words, eclipse The soul that burns between them...
Página 95 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Página 73 - I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine are mine, All light of art or nature; — to my song, Victory and praise in their own right belong.
Página 128 - But thou art fled Like some frail exhalation, which the dawn Robes in its golden beams, — ah ! thou hast fled ! The brave, the gentle, and the beautiful, The child of grace and genius. Heartless things Are done and said i...
Página 27 - You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.
Página 63 - I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee!
Página 46 - True love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths...