With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . by Robert Browning in 1857, who wrote of it, It is preservedreligiously ; but the characters are all but illegible, and I needed a strongmagnifying-glass to be quite sure of those that remain. The end is that Ihave rescued three or four variations in the reading of that divine littlepoem—as one reads it, at least, in the Posthumous Poems. [ 149 ] WITH SHELLEY IN ITALY I arise from dreams of a spirit in my feetHath led me — who knows how
With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . by Robert Browning in 1857, who wrote of it, It is preservedreligiously ; but the characters are all but illegible, and I needed a strongmagnifying-glass to be quite sure of those that remain. The end is that Ihave rescued three or four variations in the reading of that divine littlepoem—as one reads it, at least, in the Posthumous Poems. [ 149 ] WITH SHELLEY IN ITALY I arise from dreams of a spirit in my feetHath led me — who knows how ?To thy chamber window, Sweet! II The wandering airs they faintOn the dark, the silent stream —And the Champak odours failLike sweet thoughts in a dream;The nightingales complaint,It dies upon her heart; —As I must die on thine,0! beloved as thou art! IllOh lift me from the grass !I die! I faint! I fail!Let thy love in kisses rainOn my lips and eyelids cheek is cold and white, alas 1My heart beats loud and fast; —Oh! press it to thine own it will break at last. [150] THE YEARS 1820 AND 1821 5. >- er ;4. !S I -,. THE YEARS 1820 AND 1821 LEGHORN; PISA INTRODUCTORY jT JAD Shelleys poxcers been less innately poetic£ M, and less hituitive^ they must have been silencedby tkk time, since his productio?is hitherto hadfallen upon an indifferent or hostile zvorld. But fromthis time forivard, for the short remainder of his life, hezaas never to be without the assurance of finding sympa-thy from an inner circle of appreciative friends. Earlyin the year 1820, the Shelleys established themselves atPisa; so Pisa, you see, has become a little nest of singingbirds, Mrs. Shelley writes in thefolloimng year. In the main, it was the magnetic personality of Shelleyhimself that made it so. Lord Byron had left Ravennaand taken a large and handsome palace across the Arnoand nearly opposite, for the sole purpose of renewing hiscompanionship zvith Shelley; the same des
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