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Upon Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
- Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
- The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
- Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
- February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams…
- How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
- Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life…
- History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
- Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
- I Fall upon the thorns of life....
- Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what…
- The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the…
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