Adonis

Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) [pic] I weep for Adonais-he is assassinated! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so sound a head! And thou, sad Hour, selected from only years To deplore our loss, rouse thy bedim compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow, say: With me Died Adonais; trough the Future dares lead the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! Where wert thou, right Mother, when he lay, When thy Son lay, punctured by the shaft which flies In darkness? where was lorn genus Venus When Adonais died? With veiled eyes, Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise She sate, diagram of land one, with soft enamoured breath, Rekindled all the fading melodies With which, like flowers that taunt the corse beneath, He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of remnant. O, weep for Adonais-he is dead! Wake, mourning Mother, wake and weep! Yet wherefore? allay inside thei r burning bed Thy fiery tears, and let thy meretricious heart keep same his, a dumb and patient sleep; For he is gone, where all things wise and fair decide;-oh, dream not that the amorous Deep testament and restore him to the vital air; Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair. closely musical of mourners, weep once to a greater extent!

Lament anew, Urania!-He died, Who was the Sire of an immortal strain, Blind, old, and lonely, when his countrys pride, The priest, the slave, and the liberticide Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite Of lust and blood; he went, unterrifi ed, Into the gulf of death; scarcely his c! lear Sprite Yet reigns oer landed estate; the third among the sons of light. Most musical of mourners, weep anew! non all to that dazzling station dared to climb; And happier they their happiness who knew, Whose tapers soon enough burn through with(predicate) that night of time In which suns perished; others to a greater extent sublime, Struck by the green-eyed wrath of man or god, Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime; And few yet live,...If you want to posit a full essay, put it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com

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