Author: Percy Shelley

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• Kim Robinson (1)
  • IN: Icehenge (1984) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A ship is floating in the harbour now, A wind is hovering o’er the mountain’s brow; There is a path on the sea’s azure floor, No keel has ever plough’d that path before; The halcyons brood around the foamless isles; The treacherous Ocean has forsworn its wiles; The merry mariners are bold and free: Say, my heart’s sister, wilt thou sail with me?
    FROM: Epipsychidion, (1821), Poem, UK
• Dan Simmons (1)
  • IN: Olympos (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be— Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free: Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendor of its prime; And leave, if naught so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give.
    FROM: Hellas, (1822), Book, UK
• David Guterson (1)
  • IN: Ed King (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that is sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.
    FROM: Ozymandias, (1818), Poem, UK
• Somerset Maugham, William (1)
  • IN: The Painted Veil (1925) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "...the painted veil which those who live call Life."
    FROM: Sonnet (Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live..), (1824), Poem, UK
• Rhoda Broughton (1)
  • IN: Good-bye, Sweetheart! (1872) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie, Curtained with star-enwoven canopies, From the broad moonlight of the sky, Fanning the busy dreams from my dim eyes,-- Waken me when their Mother, the gray Dawn, Tells them that dreams and that the moon are gone.
    FROM: Hymn of Apollo, (1824), Poem, UK