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.
More verses by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Cyclops
- Fragment: Such Hope, As Is The Sick Despair Of Good
- Bigotry's Victim
- Epithalamium
- Sonnet -- Ye Hasten To The Grave!