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
wine joy taste
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
sight vegetarian-diet vegetarianism
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
pain men imagine
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
love family happiness
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless
dream peace sleep
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
peace war games
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
beautiful mirrors poetry
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
kings civilization names
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
time flower grief
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
sparks may single-word
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
life poetry world
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
imagination moral instruments
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
law why-not world
Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
life sweet love-is
All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.