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Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples

The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing fast and bright, Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent light: The breath of the moist earth is light Around its unexpanded buds; Like many a voice of one delight - The winds', the birds', the ocean - floods' - The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.

I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple sea - weeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star - showers thrown: I sit upon the sands alone; The lightning of ...

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