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Love's very pain is sweet — Percy Bysshe Shelley

'tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no real wealth but the labor of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There — Percy Bysshe Shelley

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

No more let life divide what death can join together. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Soul meets soul on lovers lips. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

My father Time is weak and gray
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

One wandering thought pollutes the day; — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Joy, once lost, is pain — Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The soul's joy lies in doing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have made my bed
In charnels and on coffins, where black death
Keeps record of the trophies won — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Friendship, a dear balm...
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet's food is love and fame. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece — Percy Bysshe Shelley

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

To hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates; — Percy Bysshe Shelley

And the sunlight claps the earth,
And the moonbeam kiss the sea,
What is all these sweet work worth,
If thou kiss not me. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

True Love in this differs from gold and clay,/That to divide is not to take away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hell is a city much like London. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh — Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You must come home with and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do all that is in my power to honor you. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We know not what we do
When we speak words. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

And bid them love each other and be blest:
And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves,
And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have drunken deep of joy ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert. — Percy Bysshe Shelley