greykit.poetry — Percy Bysshe Shelley/1810s

• 1819 [percy-bysshe-shelley] England in 1819
  Posthumous Poems

  An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king, princes who are the dregs of their dull race, a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field — a catalogue of graves from which a glorious Phantom may burst.

  #sonnet#politics#protest#1810s
• 1818 [percy-bysshe-shelley] Ozymandias

  A traveller's report of a ruined desert statue whose pedestal proclaims the vast ambitions of a king whose works have wholly vanished.

  #sonnet#ruin#time#power#1810s