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 "w
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"