Stanzas.—April, 1814 por Percy Shelley Away! the moor is dark beneath the Rapid clouds have drank the last p Away! the gathering winds will cal And profoundest midnight shroud th Pause not! The time is past! Ever
To Edward Williams por Percy Shelley The serpent is shut out from Para The wounded deer must seek the her In which its heart-cure lies: The widowed dove must cease to hau Like that from which its mate with
Queen Mab: Part Vi (Excerpts) por Percy Shelley “Throughout these infinite orbs of Of which yon earth is one, is wide A Spirit of activity and life, That knows no term, cessation, or That fades not when the lamp of ea
To Sophia (Miss Stacey) por Percy Shelley Thou art fair, and few are fairer Of the Nymphs of earth or ocean; They are robes that fit the wearer Those soft limbs of thine, whose m Ever falls and shifts and glances
The False Laurel and the True por Percy Shelley 'What art thou, Presumptuous, who The wreath to mighty poets only du Even whilst like a forgotten moon Touch not those leaves which for t Who wander o’er the Paradise of f
A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire por Percy Shelley THE wind has swept from the wide Each vapour that obscured the suns And pallid Evening twines its bea In duskier braids around the langu Silence and Twilight, unbeloved o
Poetical Essay por Percy Shelley Extract from Poetical Essay Millions to fight compell’d, to fi In mangled heaps on War’s red alt When the legal murders swell the l When glory’s views the titled idio
Queen Mab: Part II. por Percy Shelley If solitude hath ever led thy step To the wild ocean’s echoing shore, And thou hast lingered there, Until the sun’s broad orb Seemed resting on the burnished wa
Lines: The cold earth slept below por Percy Shelley The cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone; And all around, With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of sn
The Birth Place of Pleasure por Percy Shelley At the creation of the Earth Pleasure, that divinest birth, From the soil of Heaven did rise, Wrapped in sweet wild melodies— Like an exhalation wreathing