Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SHELLEY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley! Whose song so sweet was sweetest here Last Line: Kneels at thy feet and owns in shame a lie. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) | ||||||||
Shelley! whose song so sweet was sweetest here, We knew each other little; now I walk Along the same green path, along the shore Of Lerici, along the sandy plain Trending from Lucca to the Pisan pines Under whose shadow scatter'd camels lie, The old and young, and rarer deer uplift Their knotty branches o'er high-feather'd fern. Regions of happiness! I greet ye well; Your solitudes, and not your cities, stay'd My steps among you; for with you alone Converst I, and with those ye bore of old. He who beholds the skies of Italy Sees ancient Rome reflected, sees beyond, Into more glorious Hellas, nurse of Gods And godlike men: dwarfs people other lands. Frown not, maternal England! thy weak child Kneels at thy feet and owns in shame a lie. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GENERAL PUBLIC by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES by ROBERT DUNCAN OZYMANDIAS REVISITED by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP MEMORABILIA by ROBERT BROWNING ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY by THOMAS HARDY SHELLEY'S SKYLARK by THOMAS HARDY TO SHELLEY by JOHN BANISTER TABB A FIESOLAN IDYL by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR |
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