5 Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes on Longing

Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes on longing

29. I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.

44. 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.

46. Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon - Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night - Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!

93. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

156. Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day 'Tis since thou are fled away.