Percy Bysshe Shelley Snippet Challenge, For the Poet in You! Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi all. YEP - here I go again!   :)

I thought it might be fun to try and use several of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Poetry snippets and form a new poem using partial lines from his various poems.

I will supply the lines. You can use them as the beginning of a line or mix them up as long as the snippets remain intact. Good luck!

Here are the snippets you must use in your poem (in any order). Feel free to rhyme or write free verse or any other type of poetry style to your liking!
There are 12 snippets. You must use at least 8.

Cheers and good luck!

~Cleo    :pharoah:

Here are the snippets:

his summer dreams
when sweet violets
Nymphs of the woods
bosom of the stream
Until we hardly
my golden plumes
Like sweet thoughts
a merry measure
Sleep will come
great pines groan
A love so sweet
Its frozen dew

[Guest__*]

LOVE'S RELEASE

Nymphs of the woods:
each pretends herself to wash,
but more displays her lovely bosom;
of the stream's response
we detect but a trembling,
in his summer dreams.

Like sweet thoughts
when sweet violets
kissed, their juices
drawn forth in a sweet
all-enveloping rapture,
a love so sweet commands
no sleep will come.

Until we hardly notice
the great pine's groans
and beats, a merry measure
presaging love's release.
My ! Golden plumes,
and silver streams running :
Nature's bounty. Its frozen dew,
molten now, and floating, in the stream .....

Alan McAlpine Douglas

[Larry]

I tried to write this in the vernacular and speech pattern used in his day.


Tease

Wouldst thou bequeath a love so sweet
to still his summer dreams apace
or but a merry measure mete?
The merest kiss upon his face

avows that sleep will come as death,
unlike sweet thoughts, belatedly.
No Autumn trysts or quickened breath
from shy nymphs of the woods; for thee

shall make a pyre of heart and soul.
Thy heat may make the great pines groan
and beauty every voice extol
but when sweet violets are thrown

upon the bosom of the stream
they’ll disappear in each man’s dream.




Snippets used: a love so sweet, his summer dreams, a merry measure, sleep will come, like sweet thoughts, nymphs of the woods, great pines groan, when sweet violets, bosom of the stream

[Psyche]

Lovely sonnet, Larry. I especially like the lines I've pasted below.

"The merest kiss upon his face

avows that sleep will come as death,
unlike sweet thoughts, belatedly.
No Autumn trysts or quickened breath
from shy nymphs of the woods; for thee

shall make a pyre of heart and soul."

Yes, the speech pattern used in Shelley's day makes it all the more beautiful.
I'm not sure what the title Tease implies.

It was said that Byron (or one of his friends), rushed to tear Shelley's heart out of his extremely decomposed body, when the pyre burned. Then they all went away, because they couldn't bear the sight of the seaside cremation. But it turned out that they only had ashes to show (for his heart), so evidently they collected some later.

I wonder who this sonnet is dedicated to, if anybody? It could be to Mary, or one of the many female friends he had.

Never mind, Larry, you don't need to explain. I'm just ruminating.
Tx for sharing your sonnets with us. Hope you'll move it over to Herme's!
Syl

[Larry]

Hi Syl,

Thanks for dropping in for a read. Glad you liked the "period vernacular" that Shelly may have used in his speech or when writing.

As far as the title "Tease", Percy, in the sonnet, is questioning the intent or seriousness of emotions although he already knows that she uses any man as a play-thing. Thus the excerpt "Wouldst thou bequeath a love so sweet... or but a merry measure mete?

He knows she is beautiful but to all intents and purposes, unavailable much like some of the ladies in his life. It's a bit convoluted but so are a few of Shelly's poems.

I'll think about Hermes'

Larry

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi Larry,

Oooh - I love your response! I MUST get back into poetry writing! At the very least, to spend more time here reading. My job hunting has taken up most of my days (during the week), and I should cut back slightly with that to come over and read more and comment!

I see you've replied to the other poet challenges too and I look forward to reading!

Enjoyed!
~Cleo

[Larry]

Good Morning Lori,

Thanks for moving my post to its proper place. Glad you enjoyed it.

Good luck with the job hunting.

Larry