Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thr… - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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About Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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