Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Ozymandias (1818), Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820). He drowned in 1822, a month before his thirtieth birthday, when his boat sank in a storm off the Italian coast. He was married to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert,
O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Music, when soft voices die, / Vibrates in the memory—