Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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Red morning dawned upon his flight,Shedding the mockery of its vital hues
Upon his cheek of death.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If we reason, we would be understood if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another s if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object can not live.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The spirit of sweet human love has sent
A vision to the sleep of him who spurned
Her choicest gifts.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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