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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age: 29 †
Born: 1792
Born: August 4
Died: 1822
Died: July 8
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Percy Byssche Shelley
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I love all waste And solitary places where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.
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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
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The wise want love and those who love want wisdom.
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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
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The great secret of morals is Love or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
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It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love and those who love want wisdom.
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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.
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