I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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