. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... The Woodman and theNightingale WOODMAN whose rough heart was out of tune(I think such hearts yet nevercame to good)Hated to hear, under the stars or moon, One nightingale in an interfluous woodSatiate the hungry dark with melody; —And as a vale is watered by a Or as the moonlight fills the open skyStruggling with darkness — as a tuberosePeoples some Indian dell with scents whichlie 77 Poems Written in i8l8 Like clouds above the flower from which they rose,The singing of that happy nightingaleIn this sweet forest, from the golden close O
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... The Woodman and theNightingale WOODMAN whose rough heart was out of tune(I think such hearts yet nevercame to good)Hated to hear, under the stars or moon, One nightingale in an interfluous woodSatiate the hungry dark with melody; —And as a vale is watered by a Or as the moonlight fills the open skyStruggling with darkness — as a tuberosePeoples some Indian dell with scents whichlie 77 Poems Written in i8l8 Like clouds above the flower from which they rose,The singing of that happy nightingaleIn this sweet forest, from the golden close Of evening till the star of dawn may interfused upon the silentness;The folded roses and the violets pale Heard her within their slumbers, the abyssOf heaven with all its planets; the dull earOf the night-cradled earth ; the loneliness Of the circumfluous waters, — every sphereAnd every flower and beam and cloud and every wind of the mute atmosphere, And every beast stretched in its rugged every bird lulled on its mossy every silver moth fresh from the grave, Which is its cradle — ever from belowAspiring like one who loves too fair, too far,To be consumed within the purest glow 78 The Woodman and the Nightingale Of one serene and unapproached star,As if it were a lamp
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