. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... E hasten to the grave ! What seek ye there,Ye restless thoughts and busypurposes Of the idle brain, which the worlds livery wear ?Oh thou quick heart which pantest to possessAll that pale expectation feigneth fair!Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guessWhence thou didst come, and whither thou must all that never yet was known would know —Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye such swift feet, lifes green and pleasantpath, 276 Sonnet Seeking, alike from happiness and woe, A refuge in the cavern of gray death ? O heart, and m
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... E hasten to the grave ! What seek ye there,Ye restless thoughts and busypurposes Of the idle brain, which the worlds livery wear ?Oh thou quick heart which pantest to possessAll that pale expectation feigneth fair!Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guessWhence thou didst come, and whither thou must all that never yet was known would know —Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye such swift feet, lifes green and pleasantpath, 276 Sonnet Seeking, alike from happiness and woe, A refuge in the cavern of gray death ? O heart, and mind, and thoughts, what thing do youHope to inherit in the grave below?. Time INFATHOMABLE Sea! whosewaves are years,Ocean of Time, whose waters ofdeep woeAre brackish with the salt of human tears ! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebband flowClaspest the limits of mortality !And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;Treacherous in calm, and terrible in shall put forth on Sea ? 277 Fragment: Hope, Fear,and Doubt UCH hope, as is the sick despairof good,Such fear, as is the certainty ofill. Such doubt, as is pale Expectations foodTurned while she tastes to poison, when the
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