Night Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another's arms,…

— 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 suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory.

— 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

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight?…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley