Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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 Shelley

  Laughter, Rain, Clouds

  1819 'The Cloud'.

• There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Vegetables, Water, Adoption

  Queen Mab Notes

• This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lakes, Water, Exceed

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories, Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy”, p.83

• Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Believe, Water

• Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Faith, Horse, Children

• I 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. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Mother, Daughter

  'The Cloud' (1819)

• I 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

  Daughter, Ocean, Clouds

  'The Cloud' (1819)

• Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Water, Mind, Calm

  'To Jane: The Recollection'

• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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