The speaker of this poem compares a particular entity to "hues and harmonies of evening" and "memory of music fled" before asserting "that for its grace [it] may be / Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery." In the fifth stanza the speaker remembers he "called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed" earlier in life "while yet a boy [he] sought for ghosts." This poem's final stanza begins "The day becomes more solemn and serene / When noon is past" before the speaker implores the title entity to lets its power "to my onward life supply / I
The speaker of this poem compares a particular entity to "hues and harmonies of evening" and "memory of music fled" before asserting "that for its grace [it] may be / Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery." In the fifth stanza the speaker remembers he "called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed" earlier in life "while yet a boy [he] sought for ghosts." This poem's final stanza begins "The day becomes more solemn and serene / When noon is past" before the speaker implores the title entity to lets its power "to my onward life supply / Its calm". The speaker of this poem addresses the titular ineffable quality in the opening lines, "The awful shadow of some unseen Power / Floats though unseen amongst us." For 10 points, name this poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The speaker of this poem compares a particular entity to "hues and harmonies of evening" and "memory of music fled" before asserting "that for its grace [it] may be / Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"