Percy Bysshe Shelley/life

Famous quotes containing the words percy bysshe shelley, percy bysshe, bysshe, shelley and/or life:

    Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    the sacred few who could not tame
    Their spirits to the conquerors—
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Like a poet hidden
    In the light of thought,
    Singing hymns unbidden,
    Till the world is wrought
    To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    the sacred few who could not tame
    Their spirits to the conquerors—
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Yes, as my swift days near their goal,
    ‘Tis all that I implore—
    Through life and death, a chainless soul,
    With courage to endure!
    Emily Brontë (1818–1848)