The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelleyby Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fragment: Rome and Nature

Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy

Variation of the Song of the Moon

Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.

("Prometheus Unbound", Act 4.)

As a violet's gentle eye
Gazes on the azure sky
Until its hue grows like what it beholds;
As a gray and empty mist
Lies like solid amethyst 
Over the western mountain it enfolds,
When the sunset sleeps
Upon its snow;
As a strain of sweetest sound
Wraps itself the wind around 
Until the voiceless wind be music too;
As aught dark, vain, and dull,
Basking in what is beautiful,
Is full of light and love—

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Fragment: Rome and Nature

Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy