Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 3
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.244
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1857). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. To which is added, A brief memoir of the author”, p.107
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.239
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.40
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock (1944). “Shelley at Oxford”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.143
The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.177
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education
A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.192
'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625
1819 'The Mask of Anarchy'.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
"Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories, Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy”, p.83
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.263, JHU Press
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.285
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.146
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
"Ode to the West Wind" l. 53 (1819)
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.493, Wordsworth Editions
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.229
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.110
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.195, JHU Press
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