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Mutability
The famous poem Mutability by P.B. Shelley. The poem starts with "We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon..."
1 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 5, 2012
About the author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1,671 books1,421 followersWorks of Percy Bysshe Shelley, British romantic poet, include "To a Skylark" in 1820;
Prometheus Unbound
, the lyric drama; and "Adonais," an elegy of 1821 to John Keats.
The Cenci , work of art or literature of Percy Bysshe Shelley of 1819, depicts Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman.
People widely consider Percy Bysshe Shelley among the finest majors of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias , Ode to the West Wind , and The Masque of Anarchy . His major long visionary Alastor , The Revolt of Islam , and the unfinished The Triumph of Life .
Unconventional life and uncompromising idealism of Percy Bysshe Shelley combined with his strong skeptical voice to make an authoritative and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations, the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats and in other languages, such as Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy . Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, and [authorm:Bertrand Russell] also admired him. Famous for his association with his contemporaries Lord Byron, he also married Mary Shelley, novelist.
The Cenci , work of art or literature of Percy Bysshe Shelley of 1819, depicts Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman.
People widely consider Percy Bysshe Shelley among the finest majors of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias , Ode to the West Wind , and The Masque of Anarchy . His major long visionary Alastor , The Revolt of Islam , and the unfinished The Triumph of Life .
Unconventional life and uncompromising idealism of Percy Bysshe Shelley combined with his strong skeptical voice to make an authoritative and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations, the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats and in other languages, such as Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy . Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, and [authorm:Bertrand Russell] also admired him. Famous for his association with his contemporaries Lord Byron, he also married Mary Shelley, novelist.
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March 30, 2026
We rest—a dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise—one wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:—
It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free
We rise—one wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:—
It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free
December 13, 2023
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:
Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.
We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:
It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:
Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.
We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:
It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.
July 8, 2024
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The plot of this poem was super boring because of it I had super hard time trying to focus on this poem while I was reading it.
The writing style was okay for the most part, but still I wasn’t the biggest fan of it.
This poem was is full of old English which really didn’t vibe with the plot which made me dislike this poem even more.
https://thebookcornerchronicles.com/2...
The plot of this poem was super boring because of it I had super hard time trying to focus on this poem while I was reading it.
The writing style was okay for the most part, but still I wasn’t the biggest fan of it.
This poem was is full of old English which really didn’t vibe with the plot which made me dislike this poem even more.
August 16, 2022
One thing that never changes is change itself, sprinkled brilliantly throughout this poem 3.5
October 3, 2022
Mutability
Naught may endure but Mutability (line 16)
Naught may endure but Mutability (line 16)
January 9, 2024
quaint slay
July 31, 2024
The only constant is mutability . . . and bad poetry.
January 16, 2026
change. always
February 16, 2026
"Embrace fond woe [...]".
Paired reading for classics 2026 (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein). Q1.
This is the plot of Frankenstein, hands down. It struck me there and it strikes me on its own — how wonderful it is that we think and how torturous it is that we ponder.
We will be always changing, there's no escaping. Whether we do it positively or negatively, that's the only think that's up to us.
*Third stanza trips me up and could've been worded out better to help with the flow of the poem, tho.
Paired reading for classics 2026 (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein). Q1.
This is the plot of Frankenstein, hands down. It struck me there and it strikes me on its own — how wonderful it is that we think and how torturous it is that we ponder.
We will be always changing, there's no escaping. Whether we do it positively or negatively, that's the only think that's up to us.
*
January 11, 2018
THE flower that smiles to–day
To–morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world's delight?
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.
Virtue, how frail it is!
friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss
For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy, and all
Which ours we call
To–morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world's delight?
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.
Virtue, how frail it is!
friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss
For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy, and all
Which ours we call
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