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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

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

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cities, Heaven, London
'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

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

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 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

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

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Struggle, Heaven, Fierce
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.639, Pearson Education

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men, Heaven, Religion
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.12

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pain, Evil, Heaven
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.266

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