Showing posts with label percy bysshe shelley. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Lift not the painted veil which those who live by Percy Shelley

For truth, and like the Preacher found it not.
Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread,--behind, lurk
Fear And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave
Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.
I knew one who had lifted it--he sought,
For his lost heart was tender, things to love,
But found them not, alas! nor was there aught
The world contains, the which he could approve.
Through the unheeding many he did move,
A splendour among shadows, a bright blot
Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove


Source: Sonnets

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