Poems From Shelley Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint... more » of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE TWO SPIRITS. First Spirit. O THOU, who plumed with strong desire Wouldst float above the earth, beware ! A Shadow tracks thy flight of fire -- Night is coming ! Bright are the regions of the air, And among the winds and beams It were delight to wander there -- Night is coming ! Second Spirit. The deathless stars are bright above ; If I would cross the shade of night, Within my heart is the lamp of love, And that is day ! And the moon will smile with gentle light On my golden plumes where'er they move ; The meteors will linger round my flight, And make night day. First Spirit. But if the whirlwinds of darkness waken Hail, and lightning, and stormy rain ; See, the bounds of the air are shaken -- Night is coming ! The red swift clouds of the hurricane Yon declining sun have overtaken, The clash of the hail sweeps over the plain -- Night is coming ! Second Spirit. I see the light, and I hear the sound; I'll sail on the flood of the tempest dark, With the calm within and the light around Which makes night day : And thou, when the gloom is deep and stark, Look from thy dull earth, slumber-bound, My moon-like flight thou then may'st mark On high, far away. Some say there is a precipice Where one vast pine is frozen to ruin O'er piles of snow and chasms of ice 'Mid Alpine mountains ; And that the languid storm pursuing That winged shape, for ev...« less