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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Geburtstag: 4. August 1792
Todesdatum: 8. Juli 1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley [ˈpɜːsi bɪʃ ˈʃɛli] war ein britischer Schriftsteller der Romantik. Er war ein Verfechter des Atheismus.

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„Ihre Schönheit verdunkelte die lichte Welt, und neben ihr schien alles nur ein flüchtig Schattenbild zu sein.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Die Atlas-Hexe

Über die Welt, über schönheit

„Kein System konnte erdacht werden, das mit mehr Eifer das menschliche Glück befehdet hat, als die Ehe.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab

Über Ehe, über glück

„Wenn Winter kommt, kann Frühling weit entfernt dann sein?“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode an den Westwind

„Ruhm ist verkleidete Liebe.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Eine Ermahnung

Über Liebe, über liebe

„By solemn vision and bright silver dream
His infancy was nurtured. Every sight
And sound from the vast earth and ambient air
Sent to his heart its choicest impulses.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

„Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

„The sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Philosophy (1819), st. 2

„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

„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

„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

„And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest. St. 2

„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

„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

„Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope? St. 2

„When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead —
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. When the Lamp is Shattered http://www.readprint.com/work-1382/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1822), st. 1

„I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: — Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.“

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Context: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: — Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.