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Best Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley (87)

Discover the most loved quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry.

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" from Ozymandias · 36 ♥

"There grew pied wind-flowers and violets, Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets; Faint oxslips; tender bluebells, at whose birth The sod scarce heaved; …" from The Question · 20 ♥

"Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last." from Mutability · 15 ♥

"Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,— And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no objec…" from To the Moon · 11 ♥

"The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" from Ode to the West Wind · 10 ♥

"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art." from To a Skylark · 10 ♥

"As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" from Ode to the West Wind · 9 ♥

"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!" from Ode to the West Wind · 9 ♥

"Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart And come, for some uncertain moments lent. Man were immortal, and omnipotent, Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art, Keep with thy glorious train f…" from Hymn to Intellectual Beauty · 8 ♥

"Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." from To a Skylark · 7 ♥

"Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?" from Hymn to Intellectual Beauty · 6 ♥

"What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?" from To a Skylark · 6 ♥

"Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on." from To ——. 'Music, when soft voices die' · 6 ♥

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." from To a Skylark · 6 ♥

"Beware, O Man—for knowledge must to thee, Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be." from To the Nile · 5 ♥

"In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning. Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun." from To a Skylark · 5 ♥

"Lift not the painted veil which those who live" from Sonnet: 'Lift not the painted veil' · 5 ♥

"Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory— Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken." from To ——. 'Music, when soft voices die' · 4 ♥

"Sun-girt City, thou hast been Ocean's child, and then his queen;" from Lines written among the Euganean Hills · 4 ♥

"Within the surface of the fleeting river The wrinkled image of the city lay, Immovably unquiet, and forever It trembles, but it never fades away; Go to the... You, being changed, will find it then as…" from Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa · 3 ♥

"Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near." from To a Skylark · 3 ♥

"I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less." from Song: 'Rarely, rarely, comest thou' · 3 ♥

"Forget the dead, the past? Oh, yet There are ghosts that may take revenge for it, Memories that make the heart a tomb, Regrets which glide through the spirit's gloom, And with ghastly whispers tell T…" from The Past · 3 ♥

"Are ye, two vultures sick for battle, Two scorpions under one wetstone. Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched on the murrained cattle, Two vipers tangled into one." from Similes for two Political Characters of 1819 · 3 ♥

"Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night." from Good-night · 3 ♥

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