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Poems of Shelley
(1907)
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To the left, we show the
Frontispiece depicting Percy Bysshe Shelley prepared by A S Hartrick.
On the right, we show the Vignette
Title
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In his Introduction to Poems of Shelley,
Professor John Churton Collins provides a comprehensive survey of Shelley's
literary achievements, but perhaps the most insightful comments on Shelley's
purpose in writing are provided by the following quote
from Shelley himself:
I do remember well the hour which burst
My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was
When I walked forth upon the glittering
grass
And wept, I know not why: until there rose
From the near school-room voices, that,
alas,
Were but one echo from a world of woes,
The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and
of foes.
And then I claspt my hands and looked
around,
But none was near to mock my streaming
eyes,
Which poured their warm drops on the sunny
ground
So without shame I spake: - "I will be
wise,
And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies
Such power, for I grow weary to behold
The selfish and the strong still tyrannise
Without reproach or check." I then
controlled
My tears, my heart grew calm, and I was
meek and bold.
And from that hour did I with earnest
thought,
Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of
lore,
Yet nothing that my tyrants knew or taught
I cared to learn, but from the secret store
Wrought linked armour for my soul, before
It might go forth to war among mankind.
Given such word, perhaps it is little wonder that
Shelley has been termed Un Titan nella forma d'un Angelo, or, 'a Titan
in an Angel's form'.
The illustrations by King - highlighted by silver- and
gold-gilt and
rose accents - are gorgeous and capture the themes in
this collection of
works from Shelley in beautiful form.
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Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Making the wild his
home
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The Revolt of Islam
The Desolated
Village
There was a desolate
village in a wood
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Prometheus Unbound
With garlands pied
and starry sea-flower crowns
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Adonais
Alone, desolate
and apart
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Stanzas
Until thine azure
sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o'er
the dreaming earth
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To a Skylark
The world should
listen then - as I am listening now
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Hymn of Pan
Listening to my
sweet pipings
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To
Night
Wrap thy form in
a mantle gray,
Star inwrought!
Blind with thine
hair the eyes of Day;
Kiss her until
she be wearied out
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8 x 12" Reproduction:
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