<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478238" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode To Heaven</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS OF SPIRITS:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FIRST SPIRIT:<br>Palace-roof of cloudless nights!<br>Paradise of golden lights!<br>Deep, immeasurable, vast,<br>Which art now, and which wert then<br>Of the Present and the Past, <br>Of the eternal Where and When,<br>Presence-chamber, temple, home,<br>Ever-canopying dome,<br>Of acts and ages yet to come!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glorious shapes have life in thee,<br>Earth, and all earth’s company;<br>Living globes which ever throng<br>Thy deep chasms and wildernesses;<br>And green worlds that glide along;<br>And swift stars with flashing tresses;<br>And icy moons most cold and bright,<br>And mighty suns beyond the night,<br>Atoms of intensest light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even thy name is as a god,<br>Heaven! for thou art the abode<br>Of that Power which is the glass<br>Wherein man his nature sees.<br>Generations as they pass<br>Worship thee with bended knees.<br>Their unremaining gods and they<br>Like a river roll away:<br>Thou remainest such—alway!—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SECOND SPIRIT:<br>Thou art but the mind’s first chamber,<br>Round which its young fancies clamber,<br>Like weak insects in a cave,<br>Lighted up by stalactites;<br>But the portal of the grave,<br>Where a world of new delights<br>Will make thy best glories seem<br>But a dim and noonday gleam<br>From the shadow of a dream!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THIRD SPIRIT:<br>Peace! the abyss is wreathed with scorn<br>At your presumption, atom-born!<br>What is Heaven? and what are ye<br>Who its brief expanse inherit? <br>What are suns and spheres which flee<br>With the instinct of that Spirit<br>Of which ye are but a part?<br>Drops which Nature’s mighty heart<br>Drives through thinnest veins! Depart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is Heaven? a globe of dew,<br>Filling in the morning new<br>Some eyed flower whose young leaves waken<br>On an unimagined world:<br>Constellated suns unshaken,<br>Orbits measureless, are furled<br>In that frail and fading sphere,<br>With ten millions gathered there,<br>To tremble, gleam, and disappear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF THE ODE TO HEAVEN.<br>[Published by Mr. C.D. Locock, “Examination”, etc., 1903.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The [living frame which sustains my soul]<br>Is [sinking beneath the fierce control]<br>Down through the lampless deep of song<br>I am drawn and driven along—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a Nation screams aloud <br>Like an eagle from the cloud<br>When a...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the night...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Watch the look askance and old—<br>See neglect, and falsehood fold...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Percy+Bysshe+Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478238" data-title="Ode To Heaven de Percy Bysshe Shelley" data-description="CHORUS OF SPIRITS: FIRST SPIRIT: Palace-roof of cloudless nights! Paradise of golden lights! Deep, immeasurable, vast, Which art now, and which wert then Of the Present and the Past, Of the eternal Where and When, Presence-chamber, temple, home,..."></div> </div> </div>

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