Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY


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First Line: At the creation of the earth
Last Line: With a beauty clear and warm.
Subject(s): Pleasure


AT the creation of the Earth
Pleasure, that divinest birth,
From the soil of Heaven did rise,
Wrapped in sweet wild melodies --
Like an exhalation wreathing
To the sound of air low-breathing
Through AEolian pines, which make
A shade and shelter to the lake
Whence it rises soft and slow;
Her life-breathing [limbs] did flow
In the harmony divine
Of an ever-lengthening line
Which enwrapped her perfect form
With a beauty clear and warm.





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