文档介绍：Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
---We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Source: To a Skylark
---The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
Source: One Word is too often Profaned
---Poets are the unacknowledged legislatures of the world.
Source: A Defence of Poetry
---Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Source: A Defence of Poetry
---Sow seed-but let no tyrant reap: Find wealth-let no impostor heap: Weave robes-let not the idler wear: Forge arms-in your defence to bear.
Source: A Song: Men of England
---O, Wind, If es, can Spring be far behind?
Source: Ode to the West Wind
---Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
Source: Queen Mab
---O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth.
Source: Ode to the West Wind
---And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
Source: The Sensitive Plant, 1820 Plum blossoms: My Spring Is Ecstasy
---All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. . . . . . . They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still.
Source: Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I. Brief Introduction to the Poet
1. Life Story
Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyric poet in the English