Sunday, December 7, 2008

Shelley quotes (fragments, mostly)

From "Mont Blanc":
"The everlasting universe of things/Flows through the mind, [...]"
"Thou many-coloured, many-voiced vale, / Over whose pines, and crags, and caverns sail / Fast cloud shadows and sunbeams [...]"
"Bursting through these dark mountains like the flame / Of lightning through the tempest; [...]"
"chainless winds"
"One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings / Now float above thy darkness [...]"
"Some say that gleams of a remoter world / Visit the soul in sleep, [...]"
"A desert peopled by the storms alone,"
"None can reply--all seems eternal now."
"Fiery flood"
"Visit the hidden buds, or dreamless sleep / Holds every futre leaf and flower; [...]"
"star-beams"
"[...] The secret strength of things / Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome / Of heaven is as a law, inhabits thee! / And what were thou, and the earth, and the stars, and the sea, / If to the human mind's imaginings / Silence and solitude were vacancy?"

From "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty":
"like hues and harmonies of evening,--"
"Like memory of music fled,-- / Like aught that for its grace may be / Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery."
"Or moonlight on a midnight stream, / Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream."

From "Ode to the West Wind":
"[...] the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,"
"Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread / On the blue surface of thine aery surge,"
"Lulled by the coil of his chrystalline streams,"
"sea-blooms"
"As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. /Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! / I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
"A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed / One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud."
"The tumult of thy mighty harmonies"
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

From Prometheus Unbound:

"[...] who throng those bright and rolling Worlds"
"[...] The Sea, in storm or calm, /Heaven's ever-changing Shadow, spread below-- / Have its deaf waves not heard my agony?"
"shapeless sights"
"many-voiced Echoes"
"And ye swift Whirlwinds, who on poised wings / Hung mute and moveless o'er yon hushed abyss"
"And died as mad as the wild waves be."
"As lighting tingles, hovering ere it strike.--"
"[...] --until his thunder chained thee here.--"
"The shadows of all forms that think and live"
"And iron wings that climb the wind"
"[...] the deep truth is imageless;"
"Each to itself must be the oracle.--
"a shroeless sea"

From "To a Sky-Lark":
"In the golden lightning / Of the sunken Sun--"

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