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
struggle heaven fierce
Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
war solitude thee
Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.
eye kissing lips
... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss
tombstone sea nymphs
Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
money heart men
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.
flower air glowing
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air, The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.
lying joy soul
The soul's joy lies in doing.
friends real ignorance
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
life light white
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
pain shadow tragedy
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
men religion atheism
It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
children sleep sacrifice
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.
men heaven religion
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!
believe soul wish
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.