Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience" is "the heart's so cheering guest, / Which had--a rush for all the rest."
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Date: 1821
"Swift as a Thought by the snake Memory stung, / From her ambrosial rest the fading Splendour sprung."
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Date: 1821
"And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, / Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
One may have "A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow / Back to the burning fountain whence it came."
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Date: 1821
"Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief / Convulse us and consume us day by day, / And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."
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Date: 1821
And "if the seal is set, / Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind, / Break it not thou!"
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Date: 1821
My "spirit's bark is driven, / Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng / Whose sails were never to the tempest given."
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Date: 1821
"I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; / Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, / The soul of Adonais, like a star, / Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are."
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Date: 1821
"A godlike mind soars forth, in its delight / Making earth bare and veiling heaven, and when / It sinks, the swarms that dimmed or shared its light / Leave to its kindred lamps the spirit's awful night."
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