Ode to the West Wind
Americannoun
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After an autumn walk along the Arno in Florence he wrote his Ode to the West Wind; in Pisa The Cloud and To a Skylark.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Ode to the West Wind," we casually notice the song beginning: "Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
In the Cascine outside Florence he also composed the "Ode to the West Wind", the most symmetrically perfect as well as the most impassioned of his minor lyrics.
From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington
Ozymandias," "Music when soft voices die," "I arise from dreams of thee," "When the lamp is shattered," the "Ode to the West Wind," and "O world!
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
One critic wrote a great many pages in which he bemoans the dreary and sordid family-life of the man who wrote the "Ode to the West Wind."
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
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