Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
Let there be light! Said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.
Less oft peace in Shelley’s mind, Than calm in waters seen.
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
Think ye by gazing on each other’s eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.
Nought may endure but Mutability.
Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.
Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.
GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.