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Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley


Sonnet


Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,
Ye restless thoughts and busy purposes
Of the idle brain, which the world's livery wear?
O thou quick heart, which pantest to possess
All that pale Expectation feigneth fair!
Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guess
Whence thou didst come, and whither thou must go,
And all that never yet was known would know—
Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye press,
With such swift feet life's green and pleasant path,
Seeking, alike from happiness and woe,
A refuge in the cavern of gray death?
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you
Hope to inherit in the grave below?

1820

Percy Bysshe Shelley


Percy Bysshe Shelley's other poems:
  1. Liberty
  2. To Death
  3. The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
  4. Letter To Maria Gisborne
  5. Bereavement


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Hartley Coleridge Sonnet ("If I have sinned in act, I may repent")
  • Nicholas Breton Sonnet ("The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold")
  • Amy Levy Sonnet ("Most wonderful and strange it seems, that I")
  • Rupert Brooke Sonnet ("Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the sun")
  • Alice Dunbar-Nelson Sonnet ("I had not thought of violets late")
  • Wallace Stevens Sonnet ("Lo, even as I passed beside the booth")
  • James Lowell Sonnet ("If some small savor creep into my rhyme")

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