Chorus From Hellas

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The world`s great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn:
Heaven smiles, and faith and empires gleam,
Like a wrecks of a dissolving dream.

A brighter Hellas rears its mountains
From waves serener far;
A new Peneus rolls his fountains
Against the morning star.
Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep
Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep.

A loftier Argo cleaves the main,
Fraught with a later prize;
Another Orpheus sings again,
And loves, and weeps, and dies.
A new Ulyssses leaves once more
Calypso for his native shore... 

Next 10 Poems

• Percy Bysshe Shelley : England In 1819
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : English In 1819
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Epipsychidion ( Excerpt )
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Fragment: To The Moon
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : From Adonais, 49-52
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : From The Arabic ( An Imitation )
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Good-night
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Hellas
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Hymn Of Pan

Previous 10 Poems

• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Bereavement
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Autumn: A Dirge
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Asia: From Prometheus Unbound
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Art Thou Pale For Weariness
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Archy's Song From Charles The First
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : And Like A Dying Lady, Lean And Pale
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : An Exhortation
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Alastor: Or, The Spirit Of Solitude
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonais: An Elegy On The Death Of John Keats
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonais