Light Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

— 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

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

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

...’tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when…

— 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