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vice and secret one what hast thou done to compare in thy tumid pride with me
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even as the leaves which the keen frost-wind of the waning year has scattered on the forest soil
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nam iam saepe homines patriam carosquo parentes prodiderunt vitare acherusia templa petentes lucretius
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no atom of this turbulence fulfils a vague and unnecessitated task or acts but as it must and ought to act
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(a graduated scale on which should be marked the capabilities of propositions to approach to the test of the senses would be a just barometer of the belief which ought to be attached to them
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every proof may be referred to one of these three divisions: it is to be considered what arguments we receive from each of them which should convince us of the existence of a deity
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hist cap de deo
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'a black demon let loose from hell upon ahasuerus goads him now from country to country he is denied the consolation which death affords and precluded from the rest of the peaceful grave
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alla drakontas agrious kaleite kai pardaleis kai leontas autoi de miaiphoneite eis omoteta katalipontes ekeinois ouden ekeinois men gar o phonos trophe umin de opson estin
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notes love's rose the title is rossetti's _ not through esdaile manuscript they this
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oh what is the gain of restless care and what is ambitious treasure
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oh did you observe the black canon pass and did you observe his frown
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he goeth to say the midnight mass in holy st edmond's town
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notes _ its]it _ what]query which
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how sweetly does the moonbeam's glance with silver tint st irvyne's glade
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oh haste hark hark they're gone
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[published by hogg life of shelley dated - the poem with title as above is included in the esdaile manuscript book
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notes _ grieve esdaile manuscript feel _ to those on earth that live esdaile manuscripts omitted
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once early in the morning beelzebub arose with care his sweet person adorning he put on his sunday clothes
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as 'hush hark come they yet
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will i stand up before god's golden throne and cry 'o lord to thee did i betray an atheist but for me she would have known
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the word revived suits well with clod but what is a revived clog finally the first two lines of the following stanza seem decisive in favour of roseetti's word
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black-winged demon forms etc the bodleian manuscript exhibits the requisite hyphen here and in golden-pinioned
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mine shook beneath the wide emotion for emotion the bodleian manuscript has commotion perhaps the fitter word here
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where her own standard etc so mrs shelley poetical works both editions
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and prince athanase lines when the curved moon then lingering in the west paused in yon waves her mighty horns to wet etc
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rossetti and dowden following mrs shelley print writhed here
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our bark hung there as on a line suspended etc here on a line is rossetti's cj for one line
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and blighting hope etc the word blighting here noted as unsuitable by rossetti is cancelled in the bodleian manuscript
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she saw between the chestnuts far beneath etc the reading of editions is a palpable misprint
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and sea-buds burst under the waves serene for under edition has beneath which however is cancelled for under in the bodleian manuscript
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a sound from there etc rossetti's cj there for thee is adopted by all modern editors
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and down my cheeks the quick tears fell etc the word fell is rossetti's cj for ran
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lines - sunk must be taken as a transitive in this passage the grammar of which is defended by mr swinburne
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line salutations past salutations passed our text follows woodberry
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the 'three-dots' point which appears several times in these pages is taken from the hunt manuscript and serves to mark a pause longer than that of a full stop
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dash for colon this prepared
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gleamed in the night i wandered etc forman proposes to delete the period at night
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but treads with lulling footstep etc forman prints killing a misreading of b editions read silent
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the eastern star looks white etc b reads wan for white
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like footsteps of weak melody etc b reads far for weak
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but who rains down etc the editio princeps has reigns a reading which forman bravely but unsuccessfully attempts to defend
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where lovers catch ye by your loose tresses b has sliding for loose
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the following list of punctual variations indicates the places where our pointing departs from that of the standard text of and records in each instance the pointing of that edition
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in the posthumous poems of the line appears: oh that h and were there etc
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pain shelley meant to strike out the words between known and to fill up the gap in such a way that i would be the last word of the line beginning may well be known
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lines these appear to be antedated by a year as they evidently allude to the death of harriet shelley in november
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ode to liberty lines on the suggestion of his brother mr alfred forman the editor of the library edition of shelley's poems mr
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lines - line : struck out of the text of poetical works but restored in the nd edition of that year see note above
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the exterminable spirit it contains etc exterminable seems to be used here in the sense of 'illimitable' (n e
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shelley who failed doubtless through an oversight to restore it in the second edition see notes and above
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to mary who died in this opinion from a letter addressed by shelley to miss hitchener dated november
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: london : c and j ollier vere street bond street
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(large octavo printed in double columns the dedication is dated th november
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the poetical works : of : percy bysshe shelley : edited by : harry buxton forman : in four volumes : volume london : reeves and turner strand
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the : poetical works : of : percy bysshe shelley : edited by : edward dowden : london : macmillan and co limited : new york: the macmillan company
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unfathomable sea whose waves are years unrisen splendour of the brightest sun
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vessels of heavenly medicine may the breeze victorious wrong with vulture scream
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it is the voice of pan you hear crying his sorceries shrill and clear in the twilight dim and cool
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this ugly old crone every beauty she had when a maid when a maid
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art thou asleep or have thy wings wearied of my unchanging skies
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or haply was it i who out of dream stole but a little where shadows course called back to thee across the eternal stream
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i saw old idleness fat with great cheeks puffed to the huge circumference of a sigh but past all tinge of apples long ago
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his boyish fingers twiddled up and down the filthy remnant of a cup of physic that thicked in odour all the while he stayed
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then like a wind that hushes gazed and saw down down far down upon the untroubled green a shepherd-boy that swung a little sling
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goliath shut his lids to drive that mote which vexed the eastern azure of his eye out of his vision and stared down again
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yet stood the youth there ruddy in the flare of his vast shield nor spake nor quailed gazed up as one might scan a mountain to be scaled
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then as it were a voice unearthly still cried in the cavern of his bristling ear his name is death
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and fleet-foot fear from rolling orbs perceived steadfast unharmed a stooping shepherd-boy frowning upon the target of his face
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he breathed and lost in dazzling darkness prayed besought his reins his gloating gods his youth and turned to smite what he no more could see
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i could not view his fatness for his soul which peeped like harmless lightnings and was gone as haps to voyagers of the summer air
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lord sighed his aspect weeping o'er the jest what simple mouse brought such a mountain forth
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beauty she sighs o'er and she sighs o'er gold gold will buy all things even a sweet husband else only heaven is left and farewell youth
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surely if some young flowers of spring were put into the tender hollow of her heart 'twould faintly answer trembling in their petals
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he moves small fingers much and all his speech is like a sampler of precisest words set in the pattern of a simpleton
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and when amid startled birds she sings lament mocking in hope the long voice of the stream it seems her heart's lute hath a broken string
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better be out of sight of peering eyes out out of hearing of all-useless words spoken of tedious tongues in heedless ears
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and lest at last the world should learn heart-secrets lest that sweet wolf from some dim thicket steal better the glassy horror of the stream
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darkness gave birth to the all-trembling stars and a far roar of long-drawn cataracts flooding immeasurable night with sound
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the roar of london is the roar of ire the lion utters in his old desire for libya out of dim captivity
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and the deep wonder of her starry eyes seemingly lost in cloudless paradise and all earth's sorrow out of memory gone
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no breast wherein to chase away that watchful shape
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vain vain to say haunt not with night the day
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a blotted page from that clear little book life's taken away how could i read it dear so dark the day
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over and over again martha would tell us her stories in the hazel glen
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like a dream you dream in the night fairies and gnomes stole out in the leaf-green light
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but when the sweet moon comes showering her silver down they droop where they have blown
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no voice is audible the wind sleeps in its peace
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of stars that strangely stir smitten to fire by the sandals of him who walks with her
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the fire-flames crooned a tiny song no cold wind moved the wintry tree beside their mother's knee
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and from her leafy night-hung nook upon this stranger soft did look the nightingale: sighed he
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thus then these two small birds perched there breathed a strange riddle both did share yet neither could expound
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and we who sing but as we can in the small knowledge of a man have we an answer found
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so stand i here my woes entreating in this dark alley lest the moon point with her sparkling my barbed armoury
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step very softly sweet quiet-foot stumble not whisper not smile not by this dark ivy stoop cheek and brow
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think in time's smallest clock's minutest beat might there not rest be found for wandering feet
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no no nor earth nor air nor fire nor deep could lull poor mortal longingness asleep
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thus have they told me and i come as flies the wounded wild-bird home
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silence still faint on the porch brake the flames of the stars
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she will not die they say she will but put her beauty by and hie away
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