Mountain Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

11 Mountain quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Shelley’s restless spirit finds a kindred fire in the crags, and these eleven excerpts let his fierce imagination roam the high places. The words blaze with the same intensity as his classic verses.

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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world…

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Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise,…

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

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There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be…

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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer…

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

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Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art…

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

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

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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and…

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