(1792-1822 / Horsham / England)

poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
#19 on top 500 poets

England in 1819

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,--mud from a muddy spring,--
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  • Jeff Newnham (4/9/2013 11:09:00 AM)

    not much has changed! the day after thatcher died has much changed One down!

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  • Jeff Newnham (9/24/2012 6:52:00 AM)

    the reason I love to read Shelley is the honesty in which he wrote a real challange to all that was wrong with the world. & still is

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