Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes about Death

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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Dust, Burning

'Adonais' (1821) st. 38

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life, Death, Sleep

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.592, Pearson Education

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Art

'To Night'

The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Ends, Babe

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Brother, Sleep

'The Daemon of the World' part 1, l. 1 (a revision of the opening lines of 'Queen Mab')

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Creeds, Modest

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.8

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Pain, Hate

'Adonais' (1821) st. 40

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Dream, Sleep

Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death, Land, Spirit

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.67, Modern Library