by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth...
Language: English
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep He hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings. - We decay Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
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Confirmed with Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley, Wordsworth Editions, 1994, p.518
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, appears in Adonais, no. 39 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ina Boyle (1889 - 1967), "Peace, peace! he is not dead", subtitle: "Elegy", 1932 [ mixed chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
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