Skip to content
Linespedia

Fragment: To The Mind Of Man.

Topics: classic

Thou living light that in thy rainbow hues     Clothest this naked world; and over Sea     And Earth and air, and all the shapes that be     In peopled darkness of this wondrous world     The Spirit of thy glory dost diffuse     ... truth ... thou Vital Flame     Mysterious thought that in this mortal frame     Of things, with unextinguished lustre burnest     Now pale and faint now high to Heaven upcurled     That eer as thou dost languish still returnest     And ever     Before the ... before the Pyramids     So soon as from the Earth formless and rude     One living step had chased drear Solitude     Thou wert, Thought; thy brightness charmed the lids     Of the vast snake Eternity, who kept     The tree of good and evil. -

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"Thou living light that in thy rainbow hues..."

Exploring the themes of classic, Percy Bysshe Shelley delivers a powerful performance in "Fragment: To The Mind Of Man."... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"There is a warm and gentle atmosphere     About the form of one we love, and thus     As in a tender mist our spirits are     Wrapped in the .."

"1.     The death-bell beats! -     The mountain repeats     The echoing sound of the knell;     And the dark Monk now     Wraps the cowl roun"

"Pan loved his neighbour Echo - but that child     Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;     The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild"

"Thy look of love has power to calm     The stormiest passion of my soul;     Thy gentle words are drops of balm     In life's too bitter bowl;"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"There is a warm and gentle atmosphere     About th..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.