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Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beautiful, Kings, Revenge
'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Revenge, Idols, Age
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1908, Delphi Classics

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Revenge, Parent, Kind
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.180

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Crush, Revenge, Feelings
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1964). “Shelley in England”

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Revenge, Regret, Pain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.232

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