"WE ARE AS CLOUDS THAT VEIL THE MIDNIGHT MOON; HOW RESTLESSLY THEY GLEAM AND QUIVER, 402 "MAN'S YESTERDAY MAY NE'ER BE LIKE HIS MORROW; PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Prometheus saw, and waked the legioned hopes Which bears the wine of life, the human heart; The frown of man; and tortured to his will And Science struck the thrones of earth and heaven, * These are not meant to be identified with any existing flowers. They are to be taken in a poetical sense, as endowed with everlasting beauty. So Tennyson, "Propt on beds of amaranth and moly." NOUGHT MAY ENDURE BJT MUTABILITY."-SHELLEY. STREAKING THE DARKNESS RADIANTLY; YET SOON NIGHT CLOSES-THEY ARE LOST FOR EVE."—SHELLEY. 66 Love, hope, aND SELF-ESTEEM, LIKE CLOUDS DEPART, -(SHELLEY) Changes his lair, and by what secret spell The pale moon is transformed, when her broad eye He taught to rule, as life directs the limbs, The tempest-winged chariots of the Ocean, Were built, and through their snow-like columns flowed And the blue sea and shadowy hills were seen. [From the "Prometheus Unbound: a Lyrical Drama," act ii., scene 4.] "O MAN, HOLD ON IN COURAGE OF SOUL THROUGH THE STORMY SHADES OF THY WORLDLY WAY;-(SHELLEY) THE BILLOWS OF CLOUD THAT AROUND THEE ROLL SHALL SLEEP IN THE LIGHT OF A WONDROUS DAY."-SHELLEY. T A GARDEN. |HE snowdrop, and then the violet, Arose from the ground with warm rain wet, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, * Interlunar: a word of which Shelley seems to have been fond. uses elsewhere the expression, "In her interlunar swoon. "1 He AND COME, FOR SOME UNCERTAIN MOMENTS LENT.' -SHELLEY. "THE DAY BECOMES MORE SOLEMN AND SERENE WHEN NOON IS PAST. THERE IS A HARMONY (SHELLEY) 46 MEMORIES THAT MAKE THE HEART A TOMB,-(PERCY B. shelley) 404 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Of music so delicate, soft, and intense, It was felt like an odour within the sense; And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, And the wand-like lily, which lifted up, Gazed through the clear dew on the tender sky; And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose, And on the stream whose inconstant bosom Broad water-lilies lay tremulously, And around them the soft stream did glide and dance And the sinuous paths of lawn and moss, REGRETS WHICH GLIDE THROUGH THE SPIRIT'S GLOOM."-SHelley, SHAKESPEARE. IN AUTUMN, AND A LUSTRE IN ITS SKY, WHICH THROUGH THE SUMMER IS NOT HEARD NOR SEEN."-SHELLEY. "POESY'S UNFAILING RIVER, WHICH THROUGH ALBION WINDS FOR EVER, (SHELLEY) "MANY A GREEN ISLE NEEDS MUST BE (SHELLEY) A GARDEN. LASHING WITH MELODIOUS WAVE MANY A SACRED POET'S GRAVE."-PERCY B. SHELLEY. ["Broad water-lilies lay tremulously."] Were all paved with daisies and delicate bells, And flowerets, which, drooping as day drooped too, And from this undefilèd paradise The flowers (as an infant's awakening eyes When Heaven's blithe winds had unfolded them, [From "The Sensitive Plant," Part i., written in 1820.] IN THE DEEP WIDE SEA OF MISERY."-SHELLEY. 405 "AND THE SUNLIGHT CLASPS THE EARTH, AND THE MOONBEAMS KISS THE SEA."-SHELLEY. 406 66 See, the MOUNTAINS KISS HIGH HEAVEN,-(SHELLEY) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. WW THE PAST. ILT thou forget the happy hours Forget the dead, the past? Oh yet There are ghosts that may take revenge for it; That joy, once lost, is pain. [From Shelley's "Miscellaneous Poems."] "ALL THINGS, BY A LAW DIVINE, IN ONE ANOTHER'S BEING MINGLE."-PERCY B. SHELLEY. LOVE'S DEVOTION. NE word is too often profaned One feeling too falsely disdained One hope is too like despair I can give not what men call love, AND THE WAVES CLASP ONE ANOTHER."-SHELLEY. |