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
hope clay cold
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
hope dream sunset
Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!
hope wrecks prometheus
To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
hope mother children
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.
life wise spring
Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings.
life guests love-each-other
And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.
life art home
I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.
life real ignorance
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.
life dog war
Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.
men expression imagination
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
political poetry moral
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
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.
men religion needs
A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.
hands blood house
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting every germ Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all, Making the earth a slaughter - house!