Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 11

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• And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Names, Despair

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

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  Kissing, Romantic Love, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, James Russell Lowell, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.55

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• Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

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  Love, Sweet, Art

  'To-: Music when soft voices die' (published 1824).

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• Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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  Food, Light, Air

  'Good Night'

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• O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Dream, Sleep

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• Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

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  Kissing, Long, Lasts

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Adonais [ed. by H.B. Forman. Titlepage reprod. from the 1821 ed.].”, p.19

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• My father Time is weak and gray
  With waiting for a better day;
  See how idiot-like he stands,
  Fumbling with his palsied hands!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Father, Hands

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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  Life, Dog, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with Other Poems”, Cambridge University Press

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• Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

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  Stupid, People, Dull

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell The Third”

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• Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

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  Struggle, Heaven, Fierce

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.639, Pearson Education

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• Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

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  Change, Tombstone, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219

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• I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
  And out of the caverns of rain,
  Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
  I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Rain, Clouds

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

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  Agony, Tea, Small Talk

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.240

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• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

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  Feelings, Thee, One Word

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

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  Atheist, Enemy, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.274

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• What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

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  Thinking, Garlic, Young

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1912). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

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  Men, Flow, Force

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.438, Pearson Education

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• I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

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  Wise, Mistress, Doctrine

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 149

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• What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

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  Alive, Earth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1857). “The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.445

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• I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.

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  Past, Men, Errors

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.98, Delphi Classics

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• This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

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  Pain, Evil, Heaven

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.266

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• Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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  Change, Men, Yesterday

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

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• Woe is me!
  The winged words on which my soul would pierce
  Into the heights of love's rare universe,
  Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--
  I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

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  Love, Fire, Woe Is Me

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.230, Univ of California Press

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• Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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  Power, Pestilence

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• Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

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  Heart, Brain, Spirit

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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