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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ed. by H.b. Forman
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Ed by Hb Forman Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Of murdered Europe may thy fame be made, Great People: as the sands shalt thou become; Thy growth is swift as morn, when night must fade; The multitudinous Earth shall sleep beneath thy shade. XXIV. " Yes, in the desart therei is built a home For Freedom. Genius is made strong to rear The monuments of man beneath the dome Of a new Heaven; myriads assemble there, Whom the proud lords of man, in rage or fear, Drive from their wasted homes: the boon I pray Is this, -- that Cythna2 shall be convoyed3 there -- Nay, start not at the name -- America! And then to you this night Laon will I betray. XXV. " With me do what ye will. I am your foe!" The light of such a joy as makes the stare Of hungry snakes like living emeralds glow, Shone in a hundred human eyes -- " Where, where Is Laon ? -- 4haste ! fly ! drag him swiftly here ! We grant thy boon." -- " I put no trust in ye, Swear by your dreadful God."6 -- "We swear, we swear.' The Stranger threw his vest back suddenly, And smiled in gentle pride, and said, " Lo! I am he!" i Then in Shelley's and Mrs. Shel- convoyed in The Kerdi t of Ua,- Icy's editions, -- an obvious typogra- correction of Shelley's, umde in m. T pineal error. copy. 8 Mr. Rosuetti substitutes Laone for 4 This pause occurs in Im o"" Hint 6'f/(/mrt, bee; uise he says /xfiewns Cythna, but is wanting in The !;- ' the only name they knew Cythna by. 6 Sirear by the Paver y i'rfle ' 3 Conrtyed in Loon and Cythna; The Revolt of lslam. Canto Ctoeiftfj. The transport of a fierce and monstrous gladness Spread thro' the multitudinous streets, fast flying Upon the winds of fe...« less