. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... Summer and Winter. T was a bright and cheerful after-noon,Towards the end of the sunnymonth of June,When the north wind congregates In crowdsThe floating mountains of the silver cloudsFrom the horizon — and the stainless skyOpens beyond them like things rejoiced beneath the sun ; the river, and the corn-fields, and the reeds ;The willow leaves that glanced in the light the firm foliage of the larger trees. It was a winter such as when birds dieIn the deep forests; and the fishes lie Poems Written in 1820 Stiffe

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. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... Summer and Winter. T was a bright and cheerful after-noon,Towards the end of the sunnymonth of June,When the north wind congregates In crowdsThe floating mountains of the silver cloudsFrom the horizon — and the stainless skyOpens beyond them like things rejoiced beneath the sun ; the river, and the corn-fields, and the reeds ;The willow leaves that glanced in the light the firm foliage of the larger trees. It was a winter such as when birds dieIn the deep forests; and the fishes lie Poems Written in 1820 Stiffened in the translucent ice, which makesEven the mud and slime of the warm lakesA wrinkled clod as hard as brick ; and when,Among their children, comfortable menGather about great fires, and yet feel cold:Alas then for the homeless beggar old! Fragment: UnrisenSplendour |NRISEN splendour of the bright-est sun,To rise upon our darkness, if thestar Now beckoning thee out of thy misty throneCould thaw the clouds which wage an obscure warWith thy young brightness ! K

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