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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills

Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills
Many a green isle needs must be
In the deep wide sea of Misery,
Or the mariner, worn and wan,
Never thus c…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live

Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live
Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it b…

471
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Invocation

Invocation
Rarely, rarely, comest thou,
Spirit of Delight!
Wherefore hast thou left me now
Many a day and night?
Many a weary night and d…

518
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing …

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

From the Arabic, an Imitation

From the Arabic, an Imitation
MY faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
It panted for thee like the hind at noon
For the br…

429
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hellas

Hellas
THE world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn;
Heaven smi…

524
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte

Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte
I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan
To think that a most unambitious slave,
Like thou, shouldst da…

494
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

fragment: To The Moon

fragment: To The Moon
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have …

372
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

English In

English In
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who
Through public scorn,--mud from a muddy spring,-- …

483
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Chorus from Hellas

Chorus from Hellas
The world`s great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn:

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Autumn: A Dirge

Autumn: A Dirge
The warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing,
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,
And the Year
On the …

442
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art Thou Pale For Weariness

Art Thou Pale For Weariness
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that …

510
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude

Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood!
If our great Mother has imbued my soul
With aught of natural piety to feel

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the ins…

511
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire

A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire
THE wind has swept from the wide atmosphere
Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray,
And pallid…

486
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adonais

Adonais
I weep for Adonais -he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
And thou, sad Hour, …

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Lament

A Lament
O World! O Life! O Time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your pri…

490
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

We Wear the Mask

We Wear the Mask
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and …

646
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Paradox

The Paradox
I am the mother of sorrows,
I am the ender of grief;
I am the bud and the blossom,
I am the late-falling leaf.
I am thy pries…

709
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Theology

Theology
There is a heaven, for ever, day by day,
The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so.
There is a hell, I'm quite as sure; for pray
If …

879
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Made to Order Smile

The Made to Order Smile
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes,
And her brows are half uplifted in a nicely feigned surprise
As you bre…

488
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Haunted Oak

The Haunted Oak
Pray why are you so bare, so bare,
Oh, bough of the old oak-tree;
And why, when I go through the shade you throw,
Runs a shudder …

530
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Summer in the South

Summer in the South
The Oriole sings in the greening grove
As if he were half-way waiting,
The rosebuds peep from their hoods of green,
Timid, an…

620
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Barrier

The Barrier
The Midnight wooed the Morning Star,
And prayed her: "Love come nearer;
Your swinging coldly there afar
To me but makes you dearer." …

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