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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 9

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 8 Notes on Queen Mab 9 'O happy Earth! reality of Heaven! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe, aspire; Thou consummation…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 1

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Harriet ***** 2 1 How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as the morn When…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 2

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 3 2 If solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild Ocean's echoing shore, And thou hast lingered there, Until the sun's broad orb Seemed resting on the burnished…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 3

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2 4 3 'Fairy!' the Spirit said, And on the Queen of Spells Fixed her aethereal eyes, 'I thank thee. Thou hast given A boon which I will not resign, and taught A lesson…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 4

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3 5 4 'How beautiful this night! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 5

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 4 6 5 'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave, and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world; even as the…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 6

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5 7 6 All touch, all eye, all ear, The Spirit felt the Fairy's burning speech. O'er the thin texture of its frame, The varying periods painted changing glows, As on a…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 7

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 6 8 7 SPIRIT: 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there: The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 8

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 7 9 8 THE FAIRY: 'The Present and the Past thou hast beheld: It was a desolate sight. Now, Spirit, learn The secrets of the Future.—Time! Unfold the brooding pinion of…

2004 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)General Nonfiction: The Reformation: A History, Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking)Biography or Autobiography: De Kooning: An American…