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
dream butterfly natal
And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.
love woe-is-me fire
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.
cutting wings pity
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
actors scene spectators
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
flattery flattering incapable
The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.
meditation sage calm
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
grief echoes mountain
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
thinking reason obedience
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
flower blue views
Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.
life time glasses
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
tolerance merit crime
It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
life fall clouds
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
heart brain spirit
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.
life poetry world
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.