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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sadness, Reality, Men

It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dream, Love Is, Mind
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Michael O'Neill (1985). “Fair-copy Manuscripts of Shelley's Poems in European and American Libraries: Including Percy Bysshe Shelley's Holographs and Copies in the Hand of Mary W. Shelley, Located in the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Switzerland, as Well as the Holograph Draft of Keats's Robin Hood”, p.219, Taylor & Francis

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Heaven, Despair, Fortune
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.682

The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dream, Passion, Ministers
1821 Adonais, stanza 9.

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Past, World, Might
'Hellas' (1822) l. 1096

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
Heart, Men, Thinking
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.201

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Light, Sea, Sunrise
'Hellas' (1822) l. 682

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Water, Mind, Calm
'To Jane: The Recollection'

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Isolated, Multitudes
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Evil, Soul, Earth
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.209, Delphi Classics

There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sports, Hate, Sides
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Consisting of Miscellaneous Selections from His Poetical Works. The Entire Poems of Adonais and Alastor, and a Revised Edition of Queen Mab, Free from All the Objectionable Passages. With a Biographical Preface”, p.32

No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men, Law, Execution
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.285

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Names, Lame, Innocent
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Power, Pestilence

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Work, Heart, Suffering
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.831, Delphi Classics

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paradise, Exile
"Julian and Maddalo" l. 57 (1818)

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Moon, Heaven, Generations
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.169

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
Men, Genius, Pestilence
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wall, Lying, Ocean
'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills' (1818) l. 90

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thinking, Garlic, Young
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1912). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sea, Heaven, Mountain
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Night, Clouds, Shadow
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.193

Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Children, Believe, Water

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Animal, Long, Mind
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Power, Shadow, Unseen
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.73, JHU Press

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