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Arrogance2 quotes
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1818"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1818Clouds2 quotes
She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1821I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky.
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820London2 quotes
Hell is a city much like London—
A populous and a smoky city. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Athens1 quote
Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Being in love1 quote
My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Change1 quote
Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1816Cities1 quote
Sun-girt city, thou hast been
Ocean's child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1819Connecting with others1 quote
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine? — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1819Escape to nature1 quote
Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Flowers1 quote
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Hell1 quote
Hell is a city much like London—
A populous and a smoky city. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Hubris1 quote
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1818Impermanence1 quote
Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1816Infatuation1 quote
My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Meditation1 quote
Alas! I have nor hope nor health,
Nor peace within nor calm around,
Nor that content surpassing wealth
The sage in meditation found. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1824Melancholy1 quote
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Nature of power1 quote
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automation. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1813Nature scene1 quote
I see the waves upon the shore,
Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1824Poetry1 quote
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Power1 quote
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automation. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1813Power relations1 quote
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automation. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1813Rain1 quote
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Rural vs. urban1 quote
Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Shore1 quote
I see the waves upon the shore,
Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1824The human condition1 quote
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820The moon1 quote
That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820The only constant is change1 quote
Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1816Venice1 quote
Sun-girt city, thou hast been
Ocean's child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1819