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
soft sweet violets voices within
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken
blood cities voice
I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls; The oracular thunder penetrating shook The listening soul in my suspended blood.
wise voice mountain
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
music voice feelings
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
children law voice
The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!
sea voice vision
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.
music memories voice
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
common cute-love familiar given happier inspire light love sweet-love voice
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.
learn song suffering teach
They learn in suffering what they teach in song
hate rage side
There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side
weak weaker
What 'twas weak to do 'Tis weaker to lament, once being done
less names peculiar
Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.
fierce free maze republic struggling towards wilderness
The unquiet republic of the maze of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness
beneath closed fed garden kisses leaves nature opened plant sensitive silver winds
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.