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
beauty poetry veils
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
action laurels faster
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
notes-music notes
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
atheist creating limits
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
love life beautiful
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
memories men history
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
dust debt firsts
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
forgiveness night thinking
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory.
sleep numbers slumber
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
night black shadow
Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
romantic good-night goodnight
To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
death dust burning
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
dream sleep poison
A dream has power to poison sleep.
morning midnight may
...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.