1819 Shelley writes from Rome of the "labyrinthine recesses" of the Baths of Caracalla, "hidden & woven over by the wild growth of weeds & ivy. Never was any desolation more sublime"

Here's Severn's posthumous portrait of Shelley in the Caracalla, now at

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"Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

~Percy Bysshe Shelley,🎨Evgeny Lushpin.

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Nothing is so painful to human mind
As a great a sudden change.

Mary Shelley / Frankenstein

🎨 Mia Bergeron

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Due to St. Louis's restrictive housing covenants, Ethel Shelley had to rely on a decision from the US Supreme Court to realize her dream of home ownership. The 1948 landmark case was a direct forerunner to later civil rights victories.

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Dr. Shelley Wall gives a new twist to an old task by taking a personal approach to illustrating the brain. Happy Get the whole story: https://t.co/cs5fUT3gSR

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I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,
Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,

And gentle odours led my steps astray,
Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring

Shelley
Monet

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Died 23Feb1821 John He was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his had been published for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.

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“I am an artist with unique subjects, I let the universe put its stamp on my pieces... I am just the tool to create!” - Shelley Brookes ✨🔮 Our Exhibitor of the Day is Shelley Brookes. Come see her work at our show in May. Purchase your tickets now: https://t.co/N4j9ZAEi0M

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"By the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs" (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein)

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Algernon Charles Swinburne, a Balliol man of brilliance who studied under Jowett, was in possession of uneven talents. A true Shelleyan, here is one of his enjoyably worst, utterly dreadful, poems to that 'poet beloved above all other poets, being beyond all other poets'.

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‘Nothing of us but what must suffer a sea-change.’

— Mary Shelley, February 14 1822.

Mary quotes a line from The Tempest.

Trelawny had called with news of building Shelley’s new boat, saying, “Oh! we must all embark, all live aboard; we will all ‘suffer a sea-change.”

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Find your tribe and love them hard! This fun friendship scene is by Shelley Dieterichs, check out her full at https://t.co/pCOOicUJXk https://t.co/r15WAY1Htk

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The time that was, is, and will be, presses upon you, and, standing the centre of a moving circle, you “slide giddily as the world reels.”

— Mary Shelley, February 7 1822.

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Francis Shelley my love??

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Charles Dickens was born 1812. In 1845, he visited Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery.
'To an English traveller,' Dickens notes, this marks the graves of Shelley and Keats, ''whose name is writ in water' that shines brightly in the landscape of a calm Italian night.'

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