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26. Change

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mutability We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever: Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. We rest—A dream has powe...

27. Poem: A Lament

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 prime? No more—Oh, never more! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight; Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more—Oh, never more!

28. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I. 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, selected from all years To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow, say: “With me Died Adonais; till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!” II. Where wert thou, mig...

29. Poem: Music, When Soft Voices Die

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory - Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts ,when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

30. Poem: Mutability

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly! – yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever: Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. We rest. – A dream has power to p...

31. Poem: Ozymandias

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 shatter’d visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things, The hand that mock’d them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these...

32. Poem: To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The keen stars were twinkling, And the fair moon was rising among them, Dear Jane! The guitar was tinkling, But the notes were not sweet till you sung them Again. As the moon's soft splendor O'er the faint cold starlight of Heaven Is thrown, So your voice most tender To the strings without soul had then given Its own. The stars will awaken, Though the moon sleep a full hour later, Tonight; No le...

33. Shelley on Pride

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler 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 Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed, And on the pedestal the...

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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26. Change

Illustration

Percy Bysshe Shelley

27. Poem: A Lament

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

28. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

29. Poem: Music, When Soft Voices Die

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

30. Poem: Mutability

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

31. Poem: Ozymandias

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

32. Poem: To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

33. Shelley on Pride

Illustration

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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