Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LINES WRITTEN FOR PROMETHEUS UNBOUND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY


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First Line: As a violet's gentle eye
Last Line: Is full of light and love.


As a violet's gentle eye
Gazes on the azure sky,
Until its hue grows like what it beholds;
As a gray and empty mist
Lies like solid amethyst
Over the western mountain it enfolds,
When the sunset sleeps
Upon its snow;
As a strain of sweetest sound
Wraps itself the wind around,
Until the voiceless wind be music too;
As aught dark, vain and dull,
Basking in what is beautiful,
Is full of light and love.





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