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
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.
luxury ruins aristocracy
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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.
children sleep sacrifice
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.
age miserable graves
Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
dream passion ministers
The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.
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.
eye thinking self
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
sports hate sides
There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.
stars night sorrow
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
kings dust shining
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.