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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Life, Change
1822 'Hellas', l.34-7.

I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Sexy, Dream
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.299

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Family, Happiness
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Life, Beautiful
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.143

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Wise, Wisdom
'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Life, Romantic
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.146

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Stars, Sleep
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Wise, Solitude
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Powerful, Community
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Life, Sweet
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.114

What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Powerful, Attraction
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Misery, Pleasure
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1915). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Children, Eye
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Circles, Individual
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.82, Univ of California Press

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Men, Want
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.73, Univ of California Press

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Atheism, Principles

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Money, Heart
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.27

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).

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Fire, Woe Is Me
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.230, Univ of California Press

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Understanding, Gold
1821 'Epipsychidion', l.160-1.

Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Brother, Hate
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

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

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Believe, Promise
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1823). “Queen Mab: a philosophical poem : with notes”, p.110

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