While yet a boy I sough for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
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To hearts which near each other moveFrom evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never say good-night.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thus solemnized and softened, death is mild
And terrorless as this serenest night.
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Leave me not wild and drear and comfortless,
As silent lightning leaves the starless night!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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