Posthumous Poems (1824)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (author)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (foreword)
A volume of poems published after Shelley’s death in 1822 with a preface by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Key Quotes
Literature & Music
LIBERTY. The fiery mountains answer each other; Their thunderings are echoed from zone to zone; The empestuous oceans awake one another, And the ice-rocks are shaken round winter’s zone When the clarion of the Typhoon is blown. From a single cloud the lightning flashes, Whilst a thousand isles are…
Literature & Music
ANTISRHE β. 2. From Freedom’s form divine, From Nature’s inmost shrine, Strip every impious gawd, rend Error veil by veil: O’er Ruin desolate, O’er Falsehood’s fallen state Sit thou sublime, unawed; be the Destroyer pale! And equal laws be thine, And winged words let sail, Freighted with truth even…