The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 2K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1886 |
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affairs affectionate Allegra Apr.-July arrived August Bagnacavallo Baths beauty boat CHAP CHAP.IV child Claire Clairmont Claire's Clara dear dearest death December delight Emilia England English Fanny father February feel Florence Gisborne Godwin Greek happy hear heart hope Hoppner Horace Smith Hunt's imagination Italian Italy Jan.-May Jan.-Oct Jane January journal July June Keats Lady Laon Leghorn Leigh Hunt Lerici letter live London Lord Byron Lucca Mar.-Nov Marlow Mary Shelley Mary's May-Oct May-Sept Medwin mind Miss Clairmont months morning Naples never night November Ollier pain Peacock PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY perhaps Pisa poem poet poetry Queen Mab Ravenna Reveley Revolt of Islam Rome sail seemed Sept.-Dec Shelley and Mary Shelley reads Shelley wrote Shelley's Skinner Street spirits suffered summer tell things thought Trelawny Venice Via Reggio walk wife Williams wind wish words writes written
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Página 298 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power which seems omnipotent ; To love, and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent : This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory ! THE CENCI.
Página 106 - For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Página 409 - self-concentration' — selfishness, perhaps. You, I am sure, will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift...
Página 32 - Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm — to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.
Página 31 - The secret Strength of things Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of Heaven is as a law, inhabits thee ! And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea, If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were vacancy ? July 23, 1816.
Página 13 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Página 277 - On my arrival at Rome, I found that the story of the Cenci was a subject not to be mentioned in Italian society without awakening a deep and breathless interest...
Página 34 - Beneath the lamp the lady bowed, And slowly rolled her eyes around ; Then drawing in her breath aloud Like one that shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast : Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet, and full in view. Behold ! her bosom and half her side A sight to dream of, not to tell...
Página 253 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 132 - O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed That my own soul has to 'itself decreed.