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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHELLEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Shelley, the ceaseless music of thy soul
Last Line: That clasped thee like an overflowing heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
First Line: Shelley, the ceaseless music of thy soul
Last Line: That clasped thee like an overflowing heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Shelley, the ceaseless music of thy soul
Breathes in the Cloud and in the Skylark's song,
That float as an embodied dream along
The dewy lids of morning. In the dole
That haunts the West Wind, in the joyous roll
Of Arethusan fountains, or among
The wastes where Ozymandias the strong
Lies in colossal ruin, thy control
Speaks in the wedded rhyme. Thy spirit gave
A fragrance to all nature and a tone
To inexpressive silence. Each apart --
Earth, Air, and Ocean -- claims thee as its own;
The twain that bred thee, and the panting wave
That clasped thee like an overflowing heart.
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