There was a Being whom my spirit oft Met on its visioned wa… - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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There was a Being whom my spirit oft
Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft.

A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,
Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English romantic poets, widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language; husband of Mary Shelley.

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Alternative Names: Percy Byssche Shelley • Percy Shelley • Shelli Persi Bish

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To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came.

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.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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