Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Religious, Children, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

• To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Night, Thinking

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570

• Through the sunset of hope,
  Like the shapes of a dream,
  What paradise islands of glory gleam!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Hope, Sunset

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.177

• 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 Shelley

  Lying, Clouds, Light

  'Lines: When the lamp'

• A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Poetry, Virtue

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

• When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ambition, Two, Mad

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.211, JHU Press

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