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
moon light clouds
...’tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon....
moon night white
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
dark blue sea
Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.
age musician philosopher
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
life rivers fields
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
power shadow awful
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
beautiful spirit
A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.
gentleman devil sometimes
Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
paradise exile
Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
death creeds modest
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
writing criticism would-be
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
philosophy causes adequate
It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.
ignorant force forces-of-nature
Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
character being-positive atheism
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.