Percy Bysshe Shelley citátov
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dátum narodenia: 4. august 1792
Dátum úmrtia: 8. júl 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley /ˌpɝsi ˌbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/ bol popredný anglický romantický básnik. Je považovaný za jedného z najlepších lyrických básnikov píšúcich po anglicky.
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„Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead;
Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now -
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.
St. XXXVIII
„Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
„I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci (1819), Act I, sc. iii, l. 88
„An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, —
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
English in 1819 http://www.readprint.com/work-1361/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), l. 1
„Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
St. XVIII
„I never was attached to that great sect,
Whose doctrine is, that each one should select
Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,
And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend
To cold oblivion“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: Thy wisdom speaks in me, and bids me dare
Beacon the rocks on which high hearts are wreckt.
I never was attached to that great sect,
Whose doctrine is, that each one should select
Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,
And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend
To cold oblivion, though it is in the code
Of modern morals, and the beaten road
Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread,
Who travel to their home among the dead
By the broad highway of the world, and so
With one chained friend, — perhaps a jealous foe,
The dreariest and the longest journey go.
l. 147
„The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
St. 1
„A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: Man, who wert once a despot and a slave,
A dupe and a deceiver! a decay,
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.
Demogorgon, Act IV, l. 549
