Queen Mab, with NotesPublished at the "Beacon" office, by G. Vale, no. 94 Roosevelt-street., 1842 - 124 pages |
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Ahasuerus almighty babes Behold beneath blood breath brothers to brothers causes chain clouds coursers cried crime curse dare darkness death deeds desolate disease dreadful dreams earth earthly eternal evil fades Fairy falsehood fame fane feel fiend flame flood of ages frame Frances Wright gorgeous grandeur grave groans happiness heap heart heaven hell honour horror human Ianthe Ianthe's iron age justice kings light live mankind mind mingling misery moral murder nature nature's o'er omnipotent orbs palace passions peace PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY pleasure poisons pride priests QUEEN MAB reason religion revenge rolled ruin sacred steel sate Scarce scene sense Shelley sight silent Sir John Shelley slaves slumber smile soul Spirit spring stood thee thine things thou didst throne toil truth tyranny tyrant unholy song universe unnatural vice virtue virtuous waves waves on waves whilst withered woman's tale wonder wondrous wretched
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Page 53 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest...
Page 25 - An equal amidst equals : happiness And science dawn, though late, upon the earth ; Peace cheers the mind, health renovates the frame ; Disease and pleasure cease to mingle here, Reason and passion cease to combat there ; Whilst each unfettered o'er the earth extends Its all-subduing energies, and wields The sceptre of a vast dominion there...
Page 39 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 10 - How strange is human pride ! I tell thee that those living things To whom the fragile blade of grass That springeth in the morn And perisheth ere noon Is an unbounded world, — I tell thee that those viewless beings Whose mansion is the smallest particle Of the impassive atmosphere, — Think, feel, and live, like man ; That their affections and antipathies, Like his, produce the laws Ruling their moral state ; And the minutest throb That through their frame diffuses The slightest, faintest motion,...
Page 25 - O almighty one, I tremble and obey ! ' " O Spirit ! centuries have set their seal On this heart of many wounds, and loaded brain, Since the Incarnate came ; humbly he came, Veiling his horrible Godhead in the shape Of man, scorned by the world, his name unheard Save by the rabble of his native town, Even as a parish demagogue.
Page 12 - Yon sun, Lights it the great alone ? Yon silver beams, Sleep they less sweetly on the cottage thatch, Than on the dome of kings ? Is mother earth A step-dame to her numerous sons, who earn Her unshared gifts with unremitting toil ; A mother only to those puling babes Who, nursed in ease and luxury, make men The playthings of their babyhood, and mar, In self-important childishness, that peace Which men alone appreciate ? Spirit of Nature ! no ! The pure diffusion of thy essence throbs Alike in every...
Page 6 - The Fairy and the Spirit Approached the overhanging battlement. — Below lay stretched the universe ! There, far as the remotest line, That bounds tmagination's flight, ' ; . Countless and unending orbs In mazy motion intermingled, Yet still fulfilled immutably Eternal Nature's law. Above, below, around The circling systems formed A wilderness of harmony : Each with undeviating aim, In eloquent silence through the depths of space Pursued its wondrous way.
Page 35 - A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other : any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.