In "A Defence of Poetry,” Shelley suggests that thoughts and feelings in life are "always arising unforeseen and departing unbidden.” Which lines from "Mutability” also reflect the idea that life is fleeting?
A
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiverB
Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blastC
We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the dayD
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away