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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...self-contempt fierce blasphemies Against the Daemon of the World, and high Hurling their armed hands where the pure Spirit, _285 S... ...790 But Laon? on high Freedom’s desert land A tower whose marble walls the leagued storms withstand! 15 15 15 15 15. One summer night, in commune with... ...Ere yet success the enterprise had blessed, _3545 Leagued with me in their hearts;—their meals, their slumber, Their hourly o... ...ircumvent In the scorched pastures of the South; so bent The armies of the leagued Kings around _3825 Their files of ste... ...ainless air around Hung silent and serene—a blood-red gleam Burst upwards, hurling fiercely from the ground 169 Shelley The globed smoke,—I heard the... ...e Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain ... ...en with fierce reproach, and doubt, And lamentation, and reluctant prayer, Hurling up insurrection, which might make Our antique empire insecure, thou... ..., and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci. This national and universal interest which the story pro- duces and has produced... ... _225 They are mines of poisonous mineral. Line 222 This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the da...

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