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I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Children, Rain, Clouds

'The Cloud' (1819)

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge, Regret, Pain

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.232

Poet's food is love and fame.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fame, Poet

'Good Night'

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

Dream, Ocean, Mind

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.321

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art, Gone Love, Slumber

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Needs, Proof, Hypothesis

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1807, Delphi Classics

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Beautiful, Night, Thinking

'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men, Community, Chance

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.89, Univ of California Press

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Beautiful, Secret, Going Out

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art, Real, Army

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.269