Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
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The dwelling-placeOf insects, beasts, and birds, becomes its spoil
Their food and their retreat for ever gone,
So much of life and joy is lost.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
To-morrow,
If thy kind feelings should not cease,
We may sit here.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
and if we were not weak
Should we be less in deed than in desire?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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