The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,285 pages of information about The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete.

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,285 pages of information about The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete.

2 21 1:  I had a little sister whose fair eyes

2 25 2:  To love in human life, this sister sweet,

3 1 1:  What thoughts had sway over my sister’s slumber

3 1 3:  As if they did ten thousand years outnumber

4 30 6:  And left it vacant—­’twas her brother’s face—­

5 47 5:  I had a brother once, but he is dead!—­

6 24 8:  My own sweet sister looked), with joy did quail,

6 31 6:  The common blood which ran within our frames,

6 39 6-9: 
With such close sympathies, for to each other
Had high and solemn hopes, the gentle might
Of earliest love, and all the thoughts which smother
Cold Evil’s power, now linked a sister and a brother.

6 40 1:  And such is Nature’s modesty, that those

8 4 9:  Dream ye that God thus builds for man in solitude?

8 5 1:  What then is God?  Ye mock yourselves and give

8 6 1:  What then is God?  Some moonstruck sophist stood

8 6 8, 9:  And that men say God has appointed Death On all who scorn his will to wreak immortal wrath.

8 7 1-4: 
Men say they have seen God, and heard from God,
Or known from others who have known such things,
And that his will is all our law, a rod
To scourge us into slaves—­that Priests and Kings

8 8 1:  And it is said, that God will punish wrong;

8 8 3, 4:  And his red hell’s undying snakes among Will bind the wretch on whom he fixed a stain

8 13 3, 4:  For it is said God rules both high and low, And man is made the captive of his brother;

9 13 8:  To curse the rebels.  To their God did they

9 14 6:  By God, and Nature, and Necessity.

9 15.  The stanza contains ten lines—­lines 4-7 as follows: 
There was one teacher, and must ever be,
They said, even God, who, the necessity
Of rule and wrong had armed against mankind,
His slave and his avenger there to be;

9 18 3-6: 
And Hell and Awe, which in the heart of man
Is God itself; the Priests its downfall knew,
As day by day their altars lovelier grew,
Till they were left alone within the fane;

10 22 9:  On fire!  Almighty God his hell on earth has spread!

10 26 7, 8: 
Of their Almighty God, the armies wind
In sad procession:  each among the train

10 28 1:  O God Almighty! thou alone hast power.

10 31 1:  And Oromaze, and Christ, and Mahomet,

10 32 1:  He was a Christian Priest from whom it came

10 32 4:  To quell the rebel Atheists; a dire guest

10 32 9:  To wreak his fear of God in vengeance on mankind

10 34 5, 6:  His cradled Idol, and the sacrifice Of God to God’s own wrath—­that Islam’s creed

10 35 9:  And thrones, which rest on faith in God, nigh overturned.

10 39 4:  Of God may be appeased.  He ceased, and they

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