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Quotes from Hellas — Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792–1822 England

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Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.

Hellas (1821)

The world is weary of the past,
Oh, might it die or rest at last!

Hellas (1821)

Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love repulsed, — but it returneth!

Hellas (1821)

The moon of Mahomet
Arose, and it shall set;
While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,
The cross leads generations on.

Hellas (1821)

Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!

Hellas (1821)

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.

Hellas (1821)

The world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn;
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,
Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

Hellas (1821)

But Greece and her foundations are
Built below the tide of war,
Based on the crystalline sea
Of thought and its eternity;
Her citizens, imperial spirits,
Rule the present from the past,
On all this world of men inherits
Their seal is set.

Hellas (1821)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.