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Dark is the realm of grief: but human things
Those may not know of who cannot weep for them.
Let the blue sky overhead,
The green earth on which ye tread,
All that must eternal be
Witness the solemnity.
The Masque of Anarchy (1819)
Once, early in the morning,
Beelzebub arose,
With care his sweet person adorning,
He put on his Sunday clothes.
The Devil's Walk (1812)
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle —
Why not I with thine?
Love's Philosophy (1819)
The past Hours weak and gray
With the spoil which their toil
Raked together
From the conquest but One could foil.
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
I never thought before my death to see
Youth's vision thus made perfect.
Epipsychidion (1821)
The intense atom glows
A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
Adonais (1821)
Stand ye calm and resolute,
Like a forest close and mute,
With folded arms and looks which are
Weapons of unvanquished war.
The Masque of Anarchy (1819)
In the warm shadow of her loveliness;—
He kissed her with his beams.
From the great morning of the world when first
God dawned on Chaos.
Adonais (1821)
The young moon has fed
Her exhausted horn
With the sunset's fire.
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing
A tone
Of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one.
He is a portion of the loveliness
Which once he made more lovely.
Adonais (1821)
Hell is a city much like London —
A populous and smoky city.
Peter Bell the Third (1819)
Men must reap the things they sow,
Force from force must ever flow,
Or worse; but 'tis a bitter woe
That love or reason cannot change.
And bid them love each other and be blest:
And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves,
And come and be my guest, — for I am Love's.
Epipsychidion (1821)
Man who man would be
Must rule the empire of himself.
Swiftly walk over the western wave,
Spirit of Night!
And on their lids * * *
The baby Sleep is pillowed.
Queen Mab (1813)
Can man be free if woman be a slave?
The Revolt of Islam (1817)