Saturday, December 29, 2007

Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'

An excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's mystic poem:
"I vowed that I would dedicate my powers
To thee and thine—have I not kept the vow?
With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now
I call the phantoms of a thousand hours
Each from his voiceless grave: they have in visioned bowers
Of studious zeal or love’s delight
Outwatched with me the envious night—
They know that never joy illumed my brow
Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free
This world from its dark slavery,
That thou—O awful LOVELINESS,
Wouldst give whate’er these words cannot express. "
Enjoy this video dedicated to the verses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDhVIYfZHKk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdJgmD6AF2g&feature=related

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