SUPPOSED TO BE
ADDRESSED
TO WILLIAM GODWIN.
Shelley
.
swinging B.
; omitted 1839.
***
A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
[Published in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.
Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley). ]
Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers. _5
***
ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
[Published in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.
Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley). ]
No, Music, thou art not the 'food of Love. '
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.
***
'MIGHTY EAGLE'.
SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN.
[Published in 1882 ("Poetical Works of P. B. S. ") by Mr. H. Buxton
Forman, C. B. , by whom it is dated 1817. ]
Mighty eagle! thou that soarest
O'er the misty mountain forest,
And amid the light of morning
Like a cloud of glory hiest,
And when night descends defiest _5
The embattled tempests' warning!
***
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
[Published in part (5-9, 14) by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839,
1st edition (without title); in full 2nd edition (with title). Four
transcripts in Mrs. Shelley's hand are extant: two--Leigh Hunt's and
Ch.
***
A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
[Published in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.
Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley). ]
Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers. _5
***
ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
[Published in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.
Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley). ]
No, Music, thou art not the 'food of Love. '
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.
***
'MIGHTY EAGLE'.
SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN.
[Published in 1882 ("Poetical Works of P. B. S. ") by Mr. H. Buxton
Forman, C. B. , by whom it is dated 1817. ]
Mighty eagle! thou that soarest
O'er the misty mountain forest,
And amid the light of morning
Like a cloud of glory hiest,
And when night descends defiest _5
The embattled tempests' warning!
***
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
[Published in part (5-9, 14) by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839,
1st edition (without title); in full 2nd edition (with title). Four
transcripts in Mrs. Shelley's hand are extant: two--Leigh Hunt's and
Ch.
