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Title: With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 McMahan, Anna Benneson
Subjects: Poetry of places -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel Poetry
Publisher: Chicago : McClurg
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ight.Which sun or moon or zephyr draws aside.Till the islets beauty, like a naked brideGlowing at once with love and loveliness^Blushes and trembles at its own excess:Yet, like a buried lamp, a Soul no lessBurns in the heart of this delicious isle.An atom of th Eternal, whose own smileUnfolds itself, and may be felt, not seenOer the grey rocks, blue waves, and forests green,Filling their bare and void interstices.— But the chief marvel of the wildernessIs a lone dwelling, built by whom or howNone of the rustic island-people know :T is not a tower of strength, though with its heightIt overtops the woods; but, for delight.Some wise and tender Ocean-King, ere crimeHad been invente ^ in the worlds young prime.Reared it, a wonder of that simple time.An envy of the isles, a pleasure-houseMade sacred to his sister and his spouse.It scarce seems now a wreck of human art.But, as it were. Titanic; in the heartOf Earth having assumed its form, then grown( 222 ) DASILICA of S:m Vil;ile,Ravenna.
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— See Letter from Raveuna, p. 244. THE YEARS 1820 AND 1821 Out of the mountains, from the living stone, Lifting itself in caverns light and high : For all the antique and learned imagery Has been erased, and in the place of it The ivy and the wild-vine interknit The volumes of their many twining stems; Parasite flowers illume witli dewy gems The lampless halls, and when they fade, the sky Peeps through their winter-woof of tracery With moonlight patches, or star atoms keen. Or fragments of the days intense serene; — Working mosaic on their Parian floors. And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers And terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem To sleep in one anothers arms, and dream Of waves, flowers, clouds, woods, rocks, and all that we Eead in their smiles, and call reality. This isle and house are mine, and I have vowedThee to be lady of the solitude. —And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden eastern air.And level with the living winds, which flowLike

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