Percy Bysshe Shelley was a prominent English Romantic poet known for his lyrical and radical writings. Born on August 4, 1792, in Horsham, England, Shelley was the heir to a wealthy aristocratic family. He attended Eton College and then University College, Oxford, but was expelled for his controversial writings. Shelley's poetry often explored themes of political and social change, nature, and the power of the imagination. Some of his most famous works include "Ode to the West Wind," "Ozymandias," and "Prometheus Unbound." Shelley's life was cut short when he died in a boating accident at the age of 29, but his influence on the Romantic movement and his enduring poetry continue to be celebrated to this day.
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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. Go to Quote / Comment
Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep—and it is lifted Go to Quote / Comment
Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber,... Go to Quote / Comment
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Go to Quote / Comment
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice. Go to Quote / Comment