Sea Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

14 Sea quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Shelley’s imagination rides the tides with a blend of idealism and restless energy. Fourteen verses illustrate how the sea fuels his poetic daring, offering a concise yet stirring collection.

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Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus…

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Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

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As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me…

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Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

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

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The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

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

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“You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore…

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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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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity;…

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

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Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears!…

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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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