Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
More Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley
- My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
- If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
- Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if...
- Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a...
- Poetry Love’s Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of...
- Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
- Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam!
- When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I...
- Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still...
- Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
- War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
- O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
- Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs, –
To the silent wilderness,
Where the soul...
- And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on...
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