Lyric Poem · Nature
From Vergil's Fourth Georgic
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2And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains
3Stood, and received him in its mighty portal
4And led him through the deep's untrampled fountains
5He went in wonder through the path immortal
6Of his great Mother and her humid reign
7And groves profaned not by the step of mortal
8Which sounded as he passed, and lakes which rain
9Replenished not girt round by marble caves
10'Wildered by the watery motion of the main
11Half 'wildered he beheld the bursting waves
12Of every stream beneath the mighty earth
13Phasis and Lycus which the ... sand paves,
14 The chasm where old Enipeus has its birth
15And father Tyber and Anienas[?] glow
16And whence Caicus, Mysian stream, comes forth
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“From Vergil's Fourth Georgic” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/from-vergils-fourth-georgic
Quick facts
- Poem
- From Vergil's Fourth Georgic
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 22 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Peace
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- Shape
- 22 lines · 8 stanzas of 1–3 lines
- Line length
- Lines run 9-12 syllables (median 10), consistent with pentameter. No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBFrom Vergil's Fourth Georgic by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
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