"MANY ARE STRONG AND RICH, AND WOULD BE JUST, BUT LIVE AMONG-(PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY) "" WINTER ROBING WITH PURE SNOW AND CROWNS (SHELLEY) THEIR SUFFERING FELLOW-MEN AS IF NONE FELT; THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO."-SHELLEY. THE SPIRIT OF DELIGHT: AN INVOCATION. ARELY, rarely comest thou, R Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day 'Tis since thou art fled away. How shall ever one like me Win thee back again? Thou wilt scoff at pain. OF STARRY ICE THE GRAY GRASS AND BARE BOUGHS."-SHELLEY. "THE HARMONIOUS MIND POURED ITSELF FORTH IN ALL-PROPHETIC SONG."-shelley. 400 "DEWY MORN AND ODOROUS NOON AND Even,-(shelley) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Spirit false thou hast forgot All but those who need thee not. As a lizard with the shade Of a trembling leaf, Thou with sorrow art dismayed; Even the sighs of grief Reproach thee, that thou art not near, Let me set my mournful ditty Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay. I love all that thou lovèst, The fresh Earth in new leaves drest, Autumn evening and the morn I love snow and all the forms I love waves, and winds, and storms; Which is Nature's, and may be I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me AND SOLEMN MIDNIGHT'S TINGLING SILENTNESS."-SHELLEY. "AND IF WE WERE NOT WEAK, SHOULD WE BE LESS IN DEED THAN IN DESIRE?"-SHELLEY. སེ 66 THE AWFUL SHADOW OF SOME UNSEEN POWER THE GROWTH OF CIVILIZATION. 401 What difference? but thou dost possess I love Love-though he has wings, And like light can flee; Spirit, I love thee Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home! [A graceful, melodious, and simple lyric, differing widely in feeling and character from the gorgeous "Adonais," or the intense passion of the Epipsychidion."] "WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE POWER OVER ourselves TO DO AND SUFFER (PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY) WHAT WE KNOW NOT TILL WE TRY, BUT SOMETHING NOBLER THAN TO LIVE AND DIE."-SHELLEY. THE GROWTH OF CIVILIZATION. [Described under cover of the ancient myth of Prometheus, who may HEN Prometheus Gave wisdom, which is strength, to Jupiter, And Jove now reigned; for on the race of man Their shelterless, pale tribes to mountain-caves: So ruining the lair wherein they raged. FLOATS, THOUGH UNSEEN, AMONG US."-SHELLEY. 28 "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 Nepenthe, Moly, Amaranth,* fadeless blooms, 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, They * These are not meant to be identified with any existing flowers. STREAKING THE DARKNESS RADIANTLY; YET SOON NIGHT CLOSES-THEY ARE LOST FOR EVER."-Shelley. 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-wingèd chariots of the Ocean, Were built, and through their snow-like columns flowed And the blue sea and shadowy hills were seen. "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. 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." AND COME, FOR SOME UNCERTAIN MOMENTS LENT."-Shelley. He |