Percy Bysshe

Shelley
AUTHOR’S NAME
BORN:
August 4, 1792

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DIED:
July 8, 1822

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All about the author…

► He was one of the major English Romantic

poets, who is regarded by some as among the
finest lyric and philosophical poets in the
English language, and one the most
influential.
► He is also a poet, dramatist, essayist, and
novelist.
► His first wife was Harriet Westbrook, but died
due to drowning in Serpentine River in
Australia.
► And his second wife was Mary Godwin Shelley,
the author of the novel, Frankenstein.
► He drowned in a sudden storm in the Gulf of
Spezia that caused his death.
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 THE INDIAN
SERENADE
Song Written for an Indian Air or Lines to an Indian
Air
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STANZA 1
I arise from dreams of thee
At the first sweet sleep of night
When the winds are breathing low
And the stars are shining bright.
I arise from dreams of thee
And a spirit in my feet
Hath led me – who knows how?
To thy chamber- window, Sweet!
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STANZA 2
The wandering airs they faint
On the dark silent stream –
The champak odors fail
Like sweet thoughts in a dream;
The nightingale’s complaint
It dies upon her heart;-
As I must on thine,
Oh, beloved as thou art!
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STANZA 3
Oh lift me from the grass!
I die! I faint! I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.
My cheek is cold and white, Alas!
My heart beats loud and fast; -
Oh! Press it to thine own again,
Where it will break at last!
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