. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... On the Medusa of Leonardoda Vinci in the Floren-tine Gallery T lieth, gazing on the midnightsky,Upon the cloudy mountain peaksupine; Below, far lands are seen tremblingly ;Its horror and its beauty are its lips and eyelids seems to lie Loveliness like a shadow, from which and lurid, struggling underneath,The agonies of anguish and of death. II. Yet it is less the horror than the grace Which turns the gazers spirit into stone ;131 Poems Written in 1819 Whereon the lineaments of that dead faceAre graven, till the chara
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... On the Medusa of Leonardoda Vinci in the Floren-tine Gallery T lieth, gazing on the midnightsky,Upon the cloudy mountain peaksupine; Below, far lands are seen tremblingly ;Its horror and its beauty are its lips and eyelids seems to lie Loveliness like a shadow, from which and lurid, struggling underneath,The agonies of anguish and of death. II. Yet it is less the horror than the grace Which turns the gazers spirit into stone ;131 Poems Written in 1819 Whereon the lineaments of that dead faceAre graven, till the characters be grown Into itself, and thought no more can trace;Tis the melodious hue of beauty thrown Athwart the darkness and the glare of pain. Which humanize and harmonize the strain. from its head as from one body grow, As grass out of a watery rock, Hairs which are vipers, and they curl andflow And their long tangles in each other with unending involutions show Their mailed radiance, as it were to mockThe torture and the death within, and sawThe solid air with many a ragged jaw. IV. And from
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