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• I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Children, Lying

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.227

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• What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

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  Ignorance, Thinking, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.177

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• There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Men, Wealth

  "Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection".

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• For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

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  Compassion, Suffering, Deeds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205

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• ...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

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  Morning, Midnight, May

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.193

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• O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

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  Memories, Spring, Air

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.350, Pearson Education

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• Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

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  Marriage, Thinking, Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

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  Art, Deeds, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.452

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• As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

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  Sea, Voice, Vision

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• (Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

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  Art, Stars, Eye

  'To the Moon'

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• O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

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  Heart, Mind, Graves

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1384, 谷月社

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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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  Money, Business, Generosity

  Ivan Roe, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1953). “Shelley, the last phase”

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• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

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  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• No more let life divide what death can join together.

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  Together, Divides

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.291

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

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  Dream, Flower, Clouds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.432, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

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  Grief, Winter, Woe Is Me

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 18

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• The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

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  Nature, Majestic Beauty, Shapes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.35

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• Can man be free if woman be a slave?

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  Men, Slave, Ifs

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1861). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One Volume”, p.96

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• If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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  Writing, Criticism, Would Be

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.82, 谷月社

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• I love all waste and solitary places.

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  Solitude, Waste, Solitary

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 14

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• 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.

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  Daughter, Ocean, Clouds

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

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  Flower, Color, Broken

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1814, Delphi Classics

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• Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

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  Fate, Past, Echoes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.287

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• The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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  Clouds, Mind, Lightning

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.431, 谷月社

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• Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

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  Love, Misery, Pleasure

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1915). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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