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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Aug. 4, 1792to
July 8, 1822
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The Death Knell Is Ringing...The Ode To HeavenLove The Universe To-dayDeathTimeAutumn: A DirgeTo___ . (One word is too often profaned...)A Lament (O world! O life! O time!)A gentle story of two lovers young...The FugitivesLines. (Far, far away, O ye...)Mutability (The flower that smiles to-day...)Sufficient Unto The DayTo Harriet (Thy look of love ...)Fragment. (When soft winds and sunny skies ...)To____. (Music, when soft voices die...)Is it that in some brighter sphere...The Birth Of PleasureThe Indian SerenadePassage Of The Apennines.Wake The Serpent Not
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment
Wake the serpent not -- lest he
Should not know the way to go, --
Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping
Through the deep grass of the meadow!
Not a bee shall hear him creeping,
Not a may-fly shall awaken
From its cradling blue-bell shaken,
Not the starlight as he's sliding
Through the grass with silent gliding.
Published 1839, 2nd Edition.
Source:
The Lyrics and Shorter Poems of Percy Bysshe ShelleyCopyright 1907, reprinted 1913
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.
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