Marianne’s Dream por Percy Shelley A pale Dream came to a Lady fair, And said, A boon, a boon, I pray! I know the secrets of the air, And things are lost in the glare o Which I can make the sleeping see
Fragment of a Ghost Story por Percy Shelley A shovel of his ashes took From the hearth’s obscurest nook, Muttering mysteries as she went. Helen and Henry knew that Granny Was as much afraid of Ghosts as a
To the Moon por Percy Shelley Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on t Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a differ And ever changing, like a joyless
Lift Not the Painted Veil Which Those Who Live por Percy Shelley Lift not the painted veil which th Call Life: though unreal shapes b And it but mimic all we would beli With colours idly spread,—behind, And Hope, twin Destinies; who eve
An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before the Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty por Percy Shelley Arise, arise, arise! There is blood on the earth that d Be your wounds like eyes To weep for the dead, the dead, th What other grief were it just to p
To Mary Who Died in This Opinion por Percy Shelley Maiden, quench the glare of sorrow Struggling in thine haggard eye: Firmness dare to borrow From the wreck of destiny; For the ray morn’s bloom revealing
Fragment of a Sonnet. Farewell to North Devon por Percy Shelley Where man’s profane and tainting h Nature’s primaeval loveliness ha And some few souls of the high bli Which else obey her powerful comma ...mountain piles
Fragment: to the People of England por Percy Shelley PEOPLE of England, ye who toil Who reap the harvests which are no Who weave the clothes which your o And for your own take the inclemen Who build warm houses . . .
One Word Is Too Often Profaned por Percy Shelley One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair
Invocation por Percy Shelley Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day