Note: In the #DudleyMoore and the Musical #Dalek episode of #TheMuppetShow, #Gonzo does a bit wherein he attempts to defuse a bomb while reciting the works of #PercyByssheShelley.
Yes, THAT Shelley, friend of #LordByron (defender of the #Luddites) and husband of #MaryShelley (author of the novel #Frankenstein).

Never let it be said that an advanced degree in literature is pointless.
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Happy birthday, Percy Bysshe Shelley! Born on this day in 1792, Shelley wrote the Mask (or Masque) of Anarchy, a scathing satire on the hypocrisy of the English government and a call for true democracy, in 1819, after news of the Peterloo Massacre reached him in Italy.
#Shelley #PercyByssheShelley #RomanticPoetry #Peterloo #PeterlooMassacre #Democracy

Happy birthday, Percy Bysshe Shelley! Born on this day in 1792, Shelley wrote the Mask (or Masque) of Anarchy, a scathing satire on the hypocrisy of the English government and a call for true democracy, in 1819, after news of the Peterloo Massacre reached him in Italy.
#Shelley #PercyByssheShelley #RomanticPoetry #Peterloo #PeterlooMassacre #Democracy

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Morgen

Wo bist du, geliebtes Morgen?
Wenn Jung und Alt, und Stark und Schwach,
Reich und Arm durch Freud' und Sorgen
Trachten deinem Lächeln nach,
Finden stets, was Wir gescheut,
Anstatt deiner wir: – das Heut.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley wurde am 4. August 1792 in Field Place, Sussex geboren und starb am 8. Juli 1822 bei einem Segelunfall vor der Küste der Toskana.

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Today's poem:

Ozymandias
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/715742465843412992/ozymandias?source=share

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Take five calming minutes and chill to ⁦@chaikapod@twitter.com⁩ Poem of the Day #TheMaskOfAnarchy by #PercyByssheShelley . Enjoy💜 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chaika/id1603828302?i=1000606691109

“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

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“Venice… its temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A poem I wrote in 2018 but I think it holds up despite having odd line breaks to fit this format:

technology is past the point of use
in this place, a wasteland of abuse.
my compass
(no longer in my hand)
will guide me safely past
Ozymandius
reaching from the sand.

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#compass

Oh, thou bright wine whose purple splendour leaps
And bubbles gaily in this golden bowl
Under the lamp-light, as my spirits do,
To hear the death of my accursèd sons!
Could I believe thou wert their mingled blood, Then would I taste thee like a sacrament,
And pledge with thee the mighty Devil in Hell, Who, if a father’s curses, as men say,
Climb with swift wings after their children’s souls...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cenci - Act I Scene II

#PercyByssheShelley #Joy

'The good want power, but to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;
And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Many are strong and rich, and would be just,
But live among their suffering fellow-men
As if none felt: they know not what they do..' A #Fury speaks in what #Yeats called a 'sacred book': #PromethuesUnbound by #Shelley #PercyByssheShelley https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley#Prometheus_Unbound_(1818%E2%80%931819;_publ._1820)