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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lying, Clouds, Light
'Lines: When the lamp'

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lying, Flower, Years
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life, Children, Lying
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.227

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lying, Men, Thinking
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.391

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Happiness, Laughter, Lying

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wall, Lying, Ocean
'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills' (1818) l. 90

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lying, Blue, Yellow
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.665, Modern Library

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Block, Lying, Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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