...joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know....world should listen then — as I am listening now. Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand...

...With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. (1. 86-90) 72 . (1. 101-105) 78 Yet ere I can say where — the chariot hath Passed over them — nor other trace I...

...more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? . . . Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen then — as I am listening now. The Romantic ambivalence toward beasts was associated with mixed feelings about hunting. Some Romantics,...

...art to that of the bird, and speaks as if the very poem we have just read were as yet non-existent: Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world would listen then - as I am listening now. [p- 472] listening to his still-present 'now', despite the...

...revealing Atone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one. (11. 19-24) Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen then — as I am listening now. The reciprocity of listening and singing has been replaced in the second poem by a sense of exile from...

...more inappropriate. Tom persevered. Faith had forgotten how long the ode was. By the time he got to: Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know;...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Faith's feet were soaked and the arm holding the umbrella had gone to sleep. "Earth to earth, ashes...

...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. COMPOSED AND PUBLISHED 1820. Shelley wrote this poem toward the end of his life while living near Leghorn...

...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now! Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 116 PRAYER TWO Oracle for Peace The ancient Jews as well as any oppressed...

...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen then — as I am listening now. Richard Wilbur I read how Quixote in his random ride Came to a crossing once, and lest he lose The...

...Part Two Part Three Part Four Suzan Desserud 11 Alvin Vieira 37 Mary Koncohrada 65 Alvin Vieira 103 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world would listen then — as I am listening now. To a Skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley This is a unique book,...