Hellas: A Lyrical DramaShelley Society, 1886 - 67 pages |
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Adonais AHASUERUS Anarchy Austrian beneath blood Book of Job Buxton Forman Byron Chaos CHORUS clouds comma DAOOD dawn dead death descend A seraph-winged despair Dorset Street drama of Hellas dream earth edition of Hellas empire ERRATA FOR HELLAS Eschylus Facsimile Reprint fear foam folding star fragments Freedom Garnett glory Greece Greek hand-made Paper HASSAN heart Heaven HELLAS A LYRICAL hope Horatio Smith immortal isles liberty light line 5.-For LIST OF ERRATA living London Lord Byron Love LYRICAL DRAMA MAHMUD moon of Islam mountains night NOTE ON HELLAS ocean Octavo Ollier pale Percy Bysshe Shelley Phantom Pisa poem poet Preface PRINCE ALEXANDER MAVROCORDATO Prince Mavrocordato printed PROLOGUE TO HELLAS Prometheus Unbound Reprint on hand-made Richard Garnett ruin SEMICHORUS 1st SEMICHORUS 2d seraph-winged Victory shadow Shelley Society's slaves sleep spirit splendour stanza tempest thee thine thou thought thrones Tmolus tyrant verso wind wings Wise
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Page 13 - A power from the unknown God ; A Promethean conqueror came ; Like a triumphal path he trod The thorns of death and shame. A mortal shape to him Was like the vapour dim Which the orient planet animates with light ; Hell, Sin, and Slavery came, Like blood-hounds mild and tame, Nor preyed until their lord had taken flight. The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set : While blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon The cross leads generations on.
Page 52 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn : Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far ; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning-star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep.
Page 52 - Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shore.
Page 52 - Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or heaven can give.
Page 52 - O write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death's scroll must be— Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free, Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew.
Page lxvii - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Page 14 - The Powers of earth and air Fled from the folding star of Bethlehem : Apollo, Pan, and Love, And even Olympian Jove Grew weak, for killing Truth had glared on them ; Our hills and seas and streams Dispeopled of their dreams, Their waters turned to blood, their dew to tears, Wailed for the golden years Enter MAHMUD, HASSAN, DAOOD, and others Mahmud.
Page 12 - Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. But they are still immortal Who, thro' birth's Orient portal And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their unceasing flight In the brief dust and light Gathered around their chariots as they go...
Page 12 - Kings are like stars : they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
Page 60 - Till by the spirit of the mighty dead My heart grew warm. I feed on whom I fed " Ay, alive and still bold," muttered Earth, " Napoleon's fierce spirit rolled, In terror, and blood, and gold, A torrent of ruin to death from his birth.