by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Canto 6
Canto 8
Canto 7
So we sate joyous as the morning ray
Which fed upon the wrecks of night and storm
Now lingering on the winds; light airs did play
Among the…
Woodnotes IIAs sunbeams stream through liberal space
And nothing jostle or displace,
So waved the pine-tree through my thought
And fanned the dreams it never brought.'Whether is better, the…
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