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Percy Bysshe Shelley [ˈpɜːsi bɪʃ ˈʃɛli] est un poète britannique, né près de Horsham le 4 août 1792 et mort en mer au large de Viareggio le 8 juillet 1822. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. août 1792 – 8. juillet 1822
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Citations en anglais

“Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas

Source: Hellas (1821), l. 195

“Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven,
Although on earth ’tis planted,
Where its honours blow,
While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven
Which die the while they glow.”

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Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870)

“Let me set my mournful ditty
To a merry measure;
Thou wilt never come for pity,
Thou wilt come for pleasure;
Pity then will cut away
Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

St. 4
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)

“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Demogorgon, Act II, sc. iv, l. 110
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness!
Rival in crime and falsehood, aping all
The wanton horrors of her bloody play;
Yet frozen, unimpassioned, spiritless,
Shunning the light, and owning not its name,
Compelled by its deformity to screen
With flimsy veil of justice and of right
Its unattractive lineaments that scare
All save the brood of ignorance; at once
The cause and the effect of tyranny;
Unblushing, hardened, sensual and vile;
Dead to all love but of its abjectness;
With heart impassive by more noble powers
Than unshared pleasure, sordid gain, or fame;
Despising its own miserable being,
Which still it longs, yet fears, to disenthrall.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab

Canto V
Queen Mab (1813)

“Here I swear, and as I break my oath may Infinity Eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge… Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon, to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again — I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.”

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Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg (3 January 1811)

“The spirit of the nation that should take the lead in this great reform would insensibly become agricultural: commerce, with all its vice, selfishness, and corruption, would gradually decline; more natural habits would produce gentler manners, and the excessive complication of political relations would be so far simplified that every individual might feel and understand why he loved his country, and took a personal interest in its welfare.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley livre A Vindication of Natural Diet

A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)

“Teas,
Where small talk dies in agonies.”

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Peter Bell the Third (1819), Pt. III, st. 12

“Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley livre Ode to the West Wind

St. II
Ode to the West Wind (1819)

“If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!”

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Article 25
"Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)

“And others came… Desires and Adorations,
Winged Persuasions and veiled Destinies,
Splendours, and GloOms, and glimmering Incarnations
Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;
And Sorrow, with her family of Sighs,
And Pleasure, blind with tears, led by the gleam
Of her own dying smile instead of eyes,
Came in slow pomp; — the moving pomp might seem
Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XIII
Adonais (1821)

“Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves,
From chance, and death, and mutability,
The clogs of that which else might oversoar
The loftiest star of unascended heaven,
Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Spirit of the Hour, Act III, sc. iv, l. 200
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“Alas! that all we loved of him should be,
But for our grief, as if it had not been,
And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me!
Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene
The actors or spectators?”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXI
Adonais (1821)

“There is no God!
This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley livre The Necessity of Atheism

The Necessity of Atheism (1811)

“We must prove design before we can infer a designer.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley livre The Necessity of Atheism

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/shly310.txt
Alternate: Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/shelleydeism.htm
The Necessity of Atheism (1811)

“Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,
Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams
Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley livre Ode to the West Wind

St. III
Ode to the West Wind (1819)

“Peace is in the grave.
The grave hides all things beautiful and good.
I am a God and cannot find it there,
Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge,
This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Prometheus, Act I, l. 638
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“Rough wind, the moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main, —
Wail, for the world's wrong!”

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A Dirge http://poetryarchive.bravepages.com/RSTU_poets/shelley_percy.b.htm#dirge (1821)

“Yet now despair itself is mild,
Even as the winds and waters are;
I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne and yet must bear,
Till death like sleep might steal on me,
And I might feel in the warm air
My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea
Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.”

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Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples http://www.readprint.com/work-1373/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1818), st. 5

“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.”

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The Sensitive Plant http://www.kalliope.org/digt.pl?longdid=shelley2003060601 (1820), Pt. I, st. 1

“And with glorious triumph, they
Rode through England proud and gay,
Drunk as with intoxication
Of the wine of desolation.”

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St. 12
(1819)

“The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but enduring monument,
Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song
In sorrow.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXX
Adonais (1821)

“Poor captive bird! Who, from thy narrow cage,
Pourest such music, that it might assuage
The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee,
Were they not deaf to all sweet melody.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Epipsychidion

Source: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 9

“I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”

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Source: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 14

“Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas

Source: Hellas (1821), l. 682

“He will watch from dawn to gloom
The lake-reflected sun illume
The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom,
Nor heed nor see, what things they be;
But from these create he can
Forms more real than living man,
Nurslings of immortality!”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Fourth Spirit, Act I, l. 742
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“From the great morning of the world when first
God dawned on Chaos.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XIX
Adonais (1821)

“Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley livre Ode to the West Wind

St. IV
Ode to the West Wind (1819)

“I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cloud

St. 1
The Cloud (1820)

“A wild dissolving bliss
Over my frame he breathed, approaching near,
And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness
Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam

Canto I, st. 42
The Revolt of Islam (1817)

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