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
imagination moral instruments
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
law why-not world
Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
creative deities spirit
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
wise prayer doubt
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?
kings civilization names
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
atheist world ifs
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
time flower grief
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
grief winter years
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
notes-music notes
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
poetry firsts acorns
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
sparks may single-word
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
kings names despair
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.
compassion suffering deeds
For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
romantic good-night goodnight
To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.