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
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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.
beauty lovely-lady light
A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
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...’tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon....
food air light
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.
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.
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I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.
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Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
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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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I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
less names peculiar
Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.
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Who killed Johnny Keats? "I," said the Quarterly, "So savage and tartarly, 'Twas one of my feats