Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them."

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Source: 'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 29

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley was a key Romantic poet known for his radical ideas on love, freedom, and social justice, particularly in works like 'Prometheus Unbound'.

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