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THE ISLE. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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THE ISLE.

  • There was a little lawny islet
  • By anemone and violet,
  • Like mosaic, paven:
  • And its roof was flowers and leaves
  • Which the summer’s breath enweaves,
  • Where nor sun nor showers nor breeze
  • Pierce the pines and tallest trees,
  • Each a gem engraven.
  • Girt by many an azure wave
  • With which the clouds and mountains pave
  • A lake’s blue chasm.