Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley 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. Percy Bysshe Shelley revenge kings beautiful 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! Percy Bysshe Shelley grief song night Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low? Percy Bysshe Shelley england lord men 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 flower views blue Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. Percy Bysshe Shelley obedience reason thinking [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born. Percy Bysshe Shelley winter spring sweet As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow Percy Bysshe Shelley blue night years He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined. Percy Bysshe Shelley ocean mind dream Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Percy Bysshe Shelley selfishness sister twins God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. Percy Bysshe Shelley logic infinite ignorance A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. Percy Bysshe Shelley wells marriage humans Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. Percy Bysshe Shelley sweet love art Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls Percy Bysshe Shelley wall ocean lying Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Percy Bysshe Shelley shadow mirrors inspiration Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelley wedding brother sweet Poet's food is love and fame. Percy Bysshe Shelley poet fame The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. Percy Bysshe Shelley wisdom wise love Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. Percy Bysshe Shelley stars kings world It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found. Percy Bysshe Shelley atheism men religion All love is sweet, given or received. Percy Bysshe Shelley given love-is sweet
