“Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo (1819)

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1792 – 1822

English Romantic poet, author of 'Ozymandias' and 'Adonais', an elegy for John Keats.

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