December 2011
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“His first really fine poem is Alastor. It is written in blank verse, and...”
– from “The Child’s English Literature” by H. E. Marshall (1909)
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“I, thy crystal paramour
Borne beside thee by a power
Like the polar Paradise,...”
– from “Prometheus Unbound” (Act IV)
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"The cold earth slept below"
The cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone; And all around, With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow The breath of night like death did flow Beneath the sinking moon.
The wintry hedge was black; The green grass was not seen; The birds did rest On the bare thorn’s breast, Whose roots, beside the pathway track, Had bound their folds o’er many a...
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from "Zastrozzi"
But one evening, maddened by the tender protestations of eternal fidelity to Julia’s memory which Verezzi uttered, her brain was almost turned.
Her tumultuous soul, agitated by contending emotions, flashed from her eyes. Unable to disguise the extreme violence of her sensations, in an ecstasy of despairing love, she rushed from the apartment, where she had left Verezzi, and, unaccompanied,...
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The great secret
“The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.”
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“Alas, good friend, what profit can you see
In hating such a hateless thing as...”
– “Lines to a Reviewer” by Shelley
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“it is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that...”
– percy bysshe shelley (via fuckyeahveganlife)
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‘And fell, as I have fallen, by the wayside;— Those soonest from whose forms most shadows passed, And least of strength and beauty did abide.
‘Then, what is life? I cried.’—