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“He is made one with Nature: there is heard
His voice in all her music, from the moan
Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XLII
Adonais (1821)

Music , Nature , Bird , Night

“The world is weary of the past,
Oh, might it die or rest at last!”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas

Final chorus
Hellas (1821)

World , Past

“In each human heart terror survives
The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear
All that they would disdain to think were true:
Hypocrisy and custom make their minds
The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.
They dare not devise good for man’s estate,
And yet they know not that they do not dare.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Fury, Act I, l. 618–624
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

Fear , Thinking , Heart

“The word of God has fenced about all crimes with Holiness.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley. Queen Mab https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Queen_Mab/Canto_VII

God

“What is Freedom?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Masque of Anarchy

ye can tell
That which slavery is, too well —
For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.
St. 39
The Masque of Anarchy (1819)

Freedom

“Then, what is Life?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Triumph of Life (1822)

Life