Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
More Quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Not all to that bright station dar'd to climb;And happier they their happiness who knew,
Whose tapers yet burn through that night of time
In which suns perish'd; others more sublime,
Struck by the envious wrath of man or god,
Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime;
And some yet live, treading the thorny road,
Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
MY faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
It panted for thee like the hind at noon
For the brooks, my love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The breath of her false mouth was like faint flowers, Her touch was as electric poison.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love, but I believe in love no more.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
and if we were not weak
Should we be less in deed than in desire?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
while still
He lies, as if in dewy sleep he lay;
Awake him not!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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