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
men command-not soul
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
wise wisdom men
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
sadness reality men
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
believe destiny men
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
equality men enough
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
men genius pestilence
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
men turns dies
When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
men animal delay
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation
lying thinking men
For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.
song learning men
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
men slave ifs
Can man be free if woman be a slave?
men flow force
Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.
men numbers thrones
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
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.