Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue, with Other PoemsShelley Society, 1888 - 92 páginas |
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... heard scandalous and lying tales of Shelley's life ; his strong moral sense was shocked by the thought of danger to his wife's character or fame , and sternly yet tenderly he forbade a renewal of the intimacy . So by the Lake of Como ...
... heard scandalous and lying tales of Shelley's life ; his strong moral sense was shocked by the thought of danger to his wife's character or fame , and sternly yet tenderly he forbade a renewal of the intimacy . So by the Lake of Como ...
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... heard elsewhere But in our native land , recurs , Even here where now we meet . It stirs Too much of suffocating sorrow ! In the dell of yon dark chesnut wood Is a stone seat , a solitude Less like our own . The ghost of peace Will not ...
... heard elsewhere But in our native land , recurs , Even here where now we meet . It stirs Too much of suffocating sorrow ! In the dell of yon dark chesnut wood Is a stone seat , a solitude Less like our own . The ghost of peace Will not ...
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... heard to stir One solitary leaf on high ; The chirping of the grasshopper Fills every pause . There is emotion In all that dwells at noontide here : Then , thro ' the intricate wild wood , A maze of life and light and motion Is woven ...
... heard to stir One solitary leaf on high ; The chirping of the grasshopper Fills every pause . There is emotion In all that dwells at noontide here : Then , thro ' the intricate wild wood , A maze of life and light and motion Is woven ...
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... heard Or thought they heard upon the stair His footstep , the suspended word Died on my lips : we all grew pale : The babe at my bosom was hushed with fear If it thought it heard its father near ; And my two wild boys would near my knee ...
... heard Or thought they heard upon the stair His footstep , the suspended word Died on my lips : we all grew pale : The babe at my bosom was hushed with fear If it thought it heard its father near ; And my two wild boys would near my knee ...
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... heard his words , -and live ! Oh God ! Wherefore do I live ? - Hold , hold ! ' He cried , ' I tell thee ' tis her brother ! Thy mother , boy , beneath the sod Of yon church - yard rests in her shroud so cold : I am now weak , and pale ...
... heard his words , -and live ! Oh God ! Wherefore do I live ? - Hold , hold ! ' He cried , ' I tell thee ' tis her brother ! Thy mother , boy , beneath the sod Of yon church - yard rests in her shroud so cold : I am now weak , and pale ...
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Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue : with Other Poems Percy Bysshe Shelley Vista de fragmentos - 1975 |
Términos y frases comunes
altar azure Baxter beneath beside blue mountains breath bright brow calm cheek child cling clouds cold dark David Booth dead dear death died dream Dundee earth eclogue EUGANEAN HILLS eyes faint fair faith fear fell flame float flowers grew grey hair heard heart hope hues ideal melancholy inland stream intercourse Isabel Italy knew Lake of Como laughed light limbs Lionel lips living lone look Lucca Marlow marriage Mary memory mighty mind mist mother mountains night Nightmare Abbey nursling o'er once OZYMANDIAS Padua pale poem poet priests quivering Rosalind and Helen round sate scorn seek shadow Shelley Shelley's silent sleep smile soon soul spirit star strange sweet tears thee thine things thou thought thro truth twas tyrant weep wept wild wild boys William Baxter wind wings wonder wood words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 82 - Nothing / beside / remains. // Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / The lone and level sands / stretch far away. JOHN GIELGUD'S PAUSES: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: // Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a...
Página 82 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read...
Página 48 - Heardst thou not sweet words among That heaven-resounding minstrelsy ! - Heardst thou not, that those who die Awake in a world of ecstasy ? That love, when limbs are interwoven, And sleep, when the night of life is cloven, And thought, to the world's dim boundaries clinging, And music, when one beloved is singing, Is death ? Let us drain right joyously The cup which the sweet bird fills for me.
Página 64 - On the level quivering line Of the waters crystalline ; And before that chasm of light, As within a furnace bright, Column, tower, and dome, and spire, Shine like obelisks of fire...
Página 71 - In thine halls the lamp of learning, Padua, now no more is burning; Like a meteor whose wild way Is lost over the grave of day, It gleams betrayed and to betray.
Página 59 - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track ; Whilst above the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...
Página 69 - Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow, Or worse ; but 'tis a bitter woe That love or reason cannot change The despot's rage, the slave's revenge.
Página 78 - Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, — why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?
Página 82 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Página 79 - Thro" strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream. Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds, depart And come, for some uncertain moments lent. Man were immortal, and omnipotent, Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art, Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart. Thou messenger of sympathies, That wax and wane in lovers' eyes — Thou, that to human thought art nourishment, Like darkness to a dying flame!