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
atheist world ifs
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
real men wealth
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
life fall clouds
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
life time glasses
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
moving inspiration mirrors
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
stars kings world
Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
actors scene spectators
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
daughter ocean sky
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
fate past light
Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!
love misery pleasure
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!
solitude tranquil
I love tranquil solitude.
love powerful community
Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
love men want
So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.
moon heaven noon
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.