Percy Bysshe Shelly

 

Percy Bysshe Shelly((1792–1822)

Born	August 04, 1792 in Horsham, Sussex, England
Died	July 08, 1822 in Kingdom of Sardinia (Italy)
Genre	poetry
Occupation	Poet, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelists.
Famous Work	·         Poetry, Fiction and Verse Drama ·         Prose Works, Essays. ·         Translation
Spouse	Harriet Westbrook   Mary Shelley (married after first wife’s dead)

 

               Who is Percy Bysshe Shelle?

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822), writer, was brought into the world on 4 August 1792 at Field Place, close to Horsham in Sussex, the oldest child of Timothy, thereafter Sir Timothy Shelley, baronet (1753–1844), and his significant other, Elizabeth (1763–1846), little girl of Charles Pilfold. The artist and author Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for maintaining his secularism. Putting stock in singular freedom and the flawlessness of humankind, he was an inflexible dreamer all through his short life He was submersed at Warnham, Sussex, on 7 September 1792.

Best Works: 

"The flower that smiles to-day"

 

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow dies;

All that we wish to stay

Tempts and then flies.

What is this world's delight?

Lightning that mocks the night,

Brief even as bright.

 

Virtue, how frail it is!

Friendship how rare!

Love, how it sells poor bliss

For proud despair!

But we, though soon they fall,

Survive their joy, and all

Which ours we call.

 

Whilst skies are blue and bright,

Whilst flowers are gay,

Whilst eyes that change ere night

Make glad the day;

Whilst yet the calm hours creep,

Dream thou—and from thy sleep

Then wake to weep.