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When hearts have one mingled,
Love first leaves the well-built nest;
The weak one is singled
To endure what it once possessed.
O Love! who bewailest
The frailty of all things here,
Why choose you the frailest,
For your cradle, your home, and your bier.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. When the Lamp Is Shattered (l. 17-24). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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The inheritors of unfulfilled renown
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Adonais (Fr. XLV). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep, and it is lifted.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The earth, in Prometheus Unbound, act 3, sc. 3 (1820).
In 1818, two years before the publication of this work, Shelley started an untitled sonnet, "Lift not the painted veil which those who live/Call Life ......")
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The earth, in Prometheus Unbound, act 4, l. 403 (1820).)
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The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Adonais (Fr. LII). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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He hath awakened from the dream of life—
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Adonais (Fr. XXXIX). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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Oh, lift me from the grass!
I die! I faint! I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The Indian Serenade (l. 17-19). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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