Adonais, Stanza XLIII
Adonais, Stanza XLIII
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He is a portion of the loveliness
Which once he made more lovely. He doth bear
His part, while the One Spirit's plastic stress
Sweeps through the dull dense world; compelling there
All new successions to the forms they wear;
Torturing th' unwilling dross, that checks its flight,
To its own likeness, as each mass may bear;
And bursting in its beauty and its might
From trees and beasts and men into the heaven's light.
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Complete stanza text. Source edition: Project Gutenberg #10119.
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