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Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley


On Keats, Who Desired That On His Tomb Should Be Inscribed


'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water.
But, ere the breath that could erase it blew,
Death, in remorse for that fell slaughter,
Death, the immortalizing winter, flew
Athwart the stream,--and time's printless torrent grew
A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name
Of Adonais! 



Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem Theme: John Keats

Percy Bysshe Shelley's other poems:
  1. Homer's Hymn to Minerva
  2. From the Arabic, an Imitation
  3. Matilda Gathering Flowers
  4. The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
  5. The Spectral Horseman


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