Heaven Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits; Over earth and ocean,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley