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Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art, Moving, Spirit
'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 1

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art, Deeds, Spirit
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.452

(Title: To the Moon) 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 object worth its constancy?

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art, Stars, Eye
'To the Moon'

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death, Art
'To Night'

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art, Law, Roots
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.166

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,-- In thy place--ah! well-a-day! We find the thing we fled--To-day!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sweet, Art, Strong
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.477

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
Love, Sweet, Art
'To-: Music when soft voices die' (published 1824).

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life, Art, Home
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty, Dream, Art
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.366

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art, Law, Justice
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1842). “The masque of Anarchy, a poem, with a preface by L. Hunt. To which is added, Queen Liberty; Song- To the men of England”, p.18

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art, Gone Love, Slumber

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

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