Percy Bysshe Shelley on Birthday
1792–1822 England
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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
The Cenci (1819)
How vainly seek
The selfish for that happiness denied
To aught but virtue!
Queen Mab (1813)
The flood of time is rolling on;
We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone
To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream.
Have ye done well?
The past Hours weak and gray
With the spoil which their toil
Raked together
From the conquest but One could foil.
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but enduring monument,
Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song
In sorrow.
Adonais (1821)
Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day!
Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold,
Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway
For which, O willing slaves to Custom old,
Severe taskmistress! ye your hearts have sold.