Percy Bysshe Shelley: Quotes about the world
Percy Bysshe Shelley was English Romantic poet. Explore interesting quotes on world.Love's Philosophy http://www.readprint.com/work-1365/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), st. 1
St. 1
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1816)
Context: The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
St. XL
Adonais (1821)
Context: He has outsoared the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
From the contagion of the world's slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.
To Jane. The keen Stars were twinkling; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Mont Blanc http://www.readprint.com/work-1366/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1816), st. 3
The Necessity of Atheism (1811)
Dedication, st. 6
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
Source: To Jane: The Invitation (1822), l. 17
Source: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 595
St. 6
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1816)
Source: Hellas (1821), l. 696-703
“Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.”
Source: Hellas (1821), l. 195
A Dirge http://poetryarchive.bravepages.com/RSTU_poets/shelley_percy.b.htm#dirge (1821)
“From the great morning of the world when first
God dawned on Chaos.”
St. XIX
Adonais (1821)
Source: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 174