Prometheus Unbound
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217037808
Paperback|9780217037808
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Scene II. A Forest, intermingled with Rocts and Caverns. Asia and Panthea pass into it. Tioo young Founs are sitling on a Rock, listening. Semichorus I. Of Spirits. The path through which that lovely twain Have passed by cedar, pine, and yew, And each dark tree that ever grew, Is curtained out from Heaven's wide blue; Nor sun, nor moon, nor wind, nor rain, Can pierce its interwoven bowers, Nor aught, save where some cloud of dew, Drifted along the earth-creeping breeze, Between the trunks of the hoar trees, Hangs each a pearl in the pale flowers 10 Of the green laurel, blown anew; And bends, and then fades silently, One frail and fair anemone: Or when some star of many a one That climbs and wanders through steep night, Has found the cleft through which alone Beams fall from high those depths upon M Ere it is borne away, away, By the swift Heavens that cannot stay, It scatters drops of golden light, 20 Like lines of rain that ne'er unite: And the gloom divine is all around; And underneath is the mossy ground. Semichorus II. There the voluptuous nightingales Are awake through all the broad noonday: When one with bliss or sadness fails, And through the windless ivy-boughs, Sick with sweet love, droops dying away On its mate's music-panting bosom; Another from the swinging blossom, 30 Watching to catch the languid close Of the last strain, then lifts on high The wings of the weak melody, 'Till some new strain of feeling bear The song, and all the woods are mute; When there is heard through the dim air The rush of wings, and rising there Like many a lake-surrounded flute Sounds overflow the listener's brain So sweet, that joy is almost pain. 40Semichorus I. There those enchanted ed...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217037808 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217037801 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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