Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIt is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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