Frases célebres de Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Frases en inglés
“Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!”
St. I
Ode to the West Wind (1819)
St. 18
To a Skylark (1821)
Fuente: The Complete Poems
St. XXXVIII
Adonais (1821)
Contexto: 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.
“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
The Cenci (1819), Act I, sc. iii, l. 88
“She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.”
St. X
Adonais (1821)
Contexto: Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise!
She knew not 'twas her own; as with no stain
She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
“And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.”
St. 2
To a Skylark (1821)
Contexto: 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.
“The more we study, we the more discover / Our ignorance.”
Calderón, “Scenes from the <i>Magico Prodigioso</i>” fourth speech of Cyprian, as translated by Shelley, found in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scott, William B, ed. https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksofp1934shel/page/577
Misattributed
“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”
Canto XI, st. 18
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
The Moon, Act IV, l. 451
Variante: Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Fuente: Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Love's Philosophy http://www.readprint.com/work-1365/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), st. 1
“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”
Fuente: The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
“a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought”
Fuente: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
“No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.”
Prometheus Unbound
“With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.”
Canto V, st. 23
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
“He is a portion of the loveliness
Which once he made more lovely.”
St. XLIII
Adonais (1821)
St. 8
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
An Exhortation (1819), st. 2
St. 2
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1816)
Contexto: 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?
