I love tranquil solitude,
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good: -
Between thee and me
What diff'rence?
(Invocation)
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I ask yon Heaven, the all-beholding Sun,Has it not seen?
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And such," he cried, "is our mortality,
And this must be the emblem and the sign
Of what should be eternal and divine!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sense that he was greater than his kind
Had struck, methinks, his eagle spirit blind
By gazing on its own exceeding light.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is Time long past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Helen, whose spirit was of softer mould,
Whose sufferings too were less, death slowlier led
Into the peace of his dominion cold.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whether my life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
I know not.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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