Its passions will rock thee As the storms rock the ravens on high : Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 606by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 705 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1824 - 798 pages
...When hearts have once mingled, l.'nc first leaves the well-built ne»t, The weak one is singled Tu endure what it once possest. O, Love ! who bewailest...things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle,your home, and your bier ? Its passions will rock thee As the storms rock the ravens on high... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 438 pages
...song when the spirit is mute : — No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell....storms rock the ravens on high : Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 440 pages
...No song when the spirit is mute :— No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell....well-built nest, The weak one is singled To endure -yhat it once possest. O, Love! who bewailest The frailty of all things here, \ Its passions will rock... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...the dead seaman's knell. When hearts have once mingled Love firslleaves the well-built nesty Theweak one is singled To endure what it once possest. O,...storms rock the ravens on high : Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...is mute : — No song but sad dirge«, Like the wind through a ruin'd cell, Or the mournful surge« That ring the dead seaman's knell. When hearts have...endure what it once possest. O, Love! who bewailest The frailly of all things here, Why chuse you the frailest For your cradle, your home and your bier? It«... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...mingled, Love first leaves the well-built пеЫ ; The weak one is singled To endure what it once posses!. H Ы thec, As the storms rock the ravens on high : Bright reason will mock thce, Like the sun from a wintry... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...Survive not the lamp and the lute, No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell....is singled To endure what it once possest. O Love 1 who bewailest The frailly of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle, your home,... | |
| 1853 - 572 pages
...have stood, To worship at a nameless heap, And sadly, fondly, say " Poor Hood ! " MADELINE VERNON. * When hearts have once mingled, Love first leaves the...weak one is singled To endure what it once possest. Oh, Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pages
...dirges, Like the wind through a ruin'd cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knelL i When hearts have once mingled, Love first leaves the...nest; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possesL O, Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your... | |
| 1840 - 528 pages
...No song when the spirit is mute — No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruin'd cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell....storms rock the ravens on high : Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home... | |
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