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• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

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  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

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  Dream, Flower, Clouds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.432, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

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  Grief, Winter, Woe Is Me

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 18

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• Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?

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  Wedding, Sweet, Brother

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1877). “Favorite Poems”, p.45

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• The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

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  Nature, Majestic Beauty, Shapes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.35

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• The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

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  Beautiful, Secret, Going Out

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Genius, Pestilence

  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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• A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

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  Beauty, Light, Lovely Lady

  'The Witch of Atlas' (written 1820; published 1824) st. 5

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• And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

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  Eye, Spy, Bishops

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.231

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

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  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

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  Infancy Is, Literature, Poet

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.28

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• Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

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  Wisdom, Found, Mankind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.626, JHU Press

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• Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

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  Thinking, Reason, Obedience

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.

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  Country, Blow, Blood

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.248

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• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

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  Beautiful, Kings, Revenge

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• Can man be free if woman be a slave?

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  Men, Slave, Ifs

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1861). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One Volume”, p.96

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• I love all waste and solitary places.

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  Solitude, Waste, Solitary

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 14

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• If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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  Writing, Criticism, Would Be

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.82, 谷月社

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• When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

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  Flower, Color, Broken

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1814, Delphi Classics

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• He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

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  Death, Pain, Hate

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 40

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• Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

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  Fate, Past, Echoes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.287

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• Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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  Pain, Tragedy, Shadow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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  Clouds, Mind, Lightning

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.431, 谷月社

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• Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

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  Blue, Sky, Earth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.234

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• It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

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  Philosophy, Adequate, Causes

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