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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

More from Percy Bysshe Shelley

  1. Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame.
  2. Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle - Why not I with thine?
  3. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which…
  4. I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.
  5. Fear not the future, weep not for the past.
  6. O lift me from the grass! I die! I faint! I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas…
  7. With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
  8. Hell is a city much like London - A populous and smoky city.

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  • justice
  • equality
  • resistance
  • class
  • oppression
  • work

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