When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFear not for the future, weep not for the past.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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