Shelley: The Death of St. Polycarp, and Other Poems

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Smith, 1860 - 149 pages
 

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Page 2 - ... dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odours there. In truth have never passed away: Tis we, 'tis ours, are changed; not they. For love, and beauty, and delight, There is no death nor change; their might Exceeds our organs, which endure No light, being themselves obscure.
Page 98 - Oh green is the colour of faith and truth, And rose the colour of love and youth, And brown of the fruitful clay. Sweet Earth is faithful, and fruitful, and young, And her bridal day shall come ere long, And you shall know what the rocks and the streams And the whispering woodlands say.
Page 2 - Shall throng around our steps in gladness, Seeking their food or refuge there. Our toil from thought all glorious forms shall cull, To make this earth, our home, more beautiful, And Science, and her sister Poesy, Shall clothe in light the fields and cities of the free ! 6.
Page 54 - The sea was of the colour, and looked as solid and smooth as a sheet of lead, and covered with an oily scum. Gusts of wind swept over without ruffling it, and big drops of rain fell on its surface, rebounding, as if they could not penetrate it. There was a commotion in the air, made up of many threatening sounds, coming upon us from the sea.
Page 54 - Reggio, at some distance from shore, when a storm was driven over the sea. It enveloped them and several larger vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed onward, Roberts looked again, and saw every other vessel sailing on the ocean except their little schooner, which had vanished.
Page 147 - I hear no sound ; I see no form ; O, rest in slumber mild : They'll bring no music to thee now, My poor, my sickly child." It is not music of the earth, That makes my heart so light ; The angels call me with their songs, Oh, mother dear, good night ! THE DREAM. IN a garden fair were roaming Two lovers hand in hand ; Two pale and shadowy creatures, They sat in that flowery land.
Page 54 - The vessels in the harbour were all in hurried movement, and the tempest soon came crashing and glaring, in the fury of thunder, wind, rain, and lightning, over the port and the open waters. The storm only lasted about twenty minutes, and during its progress Captain Roberts watched Shelley's vessel with his glass from the top of the Leghorn lighthouse. The yacht had made Via Reggio when the storm began. " When the cloud passed onward,
Page 53 - ... the smoke on the water," observed that " the devil was brewing mischief." The waves were speedily covered with a sea-fog, in which Shelley's boat was hidden from the view of Mr. Trelawny. It was intensely hot ; the atmosphere was heavy and moveless to an oppressive degree, and a profound silence spread far over the ocean. By half-past six o'clock it was almost dark ; the sea looked solid and lead-colored ; an oily scum was on the surface ; the wind was beginning to wake, in short, panting gusts...
Page 125 - Mid flowers and perfume: With a merry heart and buoyant, I scent the coming breeze, As it ruffles o'er the streamlet And murmurs through the trees. Through the thickly coated window The sun can scarcely peep; Yet I feel his glowing splendour, And gambol with the sheep; With an ecstasy of rapture, My soul expands her wings, For the bee is gaily booming— The lark in glory sings. There the fairy forms romantic Of poet's gladsome lay, In their dances wild and antic, Upon the greensward play : There...
Page 121 - Spenser IT is a lowly cottage of a quaint and antique mien, With gable end, and straw- thatched roof, hid o'er with mosses green; And, standing at its door, is seen a maiden young and fair, The summer breeze is sporting with the ringlets of her hair: Light auburn is its colour, and its texture like...

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