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" The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre... "
Poems - Page 172
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...might Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: Oh hear! 3 Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, 30 Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,121 And saw in...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...might Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O hear! Ill Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue...saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within die wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing...
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Complete Poems

Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...tide, Forgot the lifting winds. 12-29 (20-3o) Compare Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," lines 33-34: "and saw in sleep old palaces and towers / Quivering within the wave's intenser day." 14-15 (22-23) The light is phosphorescence. Chateaubriand said that the cities were built of "combustible...
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...might Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O hear! in Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue...and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, ' Maenad: wild, frenzied woman; originally a member of the cult of Dionysus, Greek god of wine and...
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"Das Heilige sei mein Wort": Paradigmen prophetischer Dichtung von Klopstock ...

Bernadette Malinowski - 2002 - 468 pages
...might Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O, hear! III Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue...Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep dim palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and...
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A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-era Revival, 1750-1850

Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 1999 - 306 pages
...might Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O, hear! Ill Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue...of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baias's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All...
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Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction

Peter Stockwell - 2002 - 214 pages
...Wind', Percy Bysshe Shelley) Trajector (from clarion blast) covers and pierces the landmark (earth). And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering...intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers ('Ode to the West Wind', Percy Bysshe Shelley) Trajector (moss and flowers) ends up covering and enveloping...
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Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "darkening" of Latin American Literature

Antonio D. Tillis - 2005 - 163 pages
...down, but so are the boundaries of the common human faculties. A good illustration of this is stanza 3: Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue...Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his chrystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Bail's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering...
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Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets

Jude Morgan - 2006 - 564 pages
...might Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: oh, hear! 3. Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue...of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Bale's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown...
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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ...

Francesco Orlando - 2008 - 520 pages
..."wakens from his summer dreams" the Mediterranean Sea, which lay idly, gently rocked by its own currents: And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering...intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers. . . .14 "Old palaces and towers" are not seen reflected in the sea; on the contrary, it is the southern...
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