. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... but neer knew loves sad satiety. Waking or asleep. Thou of death must deemThings more true and deep / To a Skylark Than we mortals dream,Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystalstream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell of sad-dest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear;If we were things born Not to shed a tear,I know not how thy joy we ever should comenear. Better than all measures Of delightful than all
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... but neer knew loves sad satiety. Waking or asleep. Thou of death must deemThings more true and deep / To a Skylark Than we mortals dream,Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystalstream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell of sad-dest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear;If we were things born Not to shed a tear,I know not how thy joy we ever should comenear. Better than all measures Of delightful than all treasures That in books are skill to poet were, thou scorner of theground! Poems Written in 1820 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow,The world should listen then, as I am listeningnow. Cancelled Passage HEIR moss rotted off them, flakeby the thick stalk stuck like amurderers rags of loose ilesh yet tremble on the winds that wander Ode to Liberty
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