Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelleywas one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 August 1792
truth truth-is
Deep truth is imageless.
wise mistress doctrine
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.
passion mind religion
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.
song grief night
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!
song liberty
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
pain shadow tragedy
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
tombstone sea nymphs
Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
eye kissing lips
... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss
hands blood house
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting every germ Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all, Making the earth a slaughter - house!
strength imagination add
Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.
lakes water exceed
This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
stars blue dwelling
The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.
isolated multitudes
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
deeds holy
Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.