Shelley is better known as an atheist than as a pantheist, but in his atheist tracts he is careful not to exclude the idea of a universal spirit - an idea that makes his Ode to the West Wind one of the most powerful poetic statements of pantheism. Translations are by Paul Harrison. Heaven and earth, the watered plains, the moon's shining globe, the sun and stars are all strengthened by Spirit working within them, and mind stirs this great mass, infused through all its limbs and mixed in with its body. And Eternity in an hour. Energy is eternal delight . . .
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
God only Acts and Is, in existing beings or Men. A motion and a spirit that impels all things . . . At once the Soul of each, and God of all . . . And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all. This appears to me faint sketch of a system of Salvation which does not affront our reason and humanity.