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    This poem describes the state of England in 1819 as seen through the eyes of Percy Bysshe Shelley. It depicts the king as old, mad, blind and despised. The princes are described as draining the country like mud from a muddy spring. The rulers neither see, feel nor know what is happening to the fainting country. The people are starved and stabbed in the untilled fields, while the army preys upon the people. Golden and sanguine laws tempt and slay the population. Religion is described as Christless and Godless. The senate remains the worst statute, unrepealed. However, Shelley believes a glorious phantom may burst forth from these graves to illuminate their

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    This poem describes the state of England in 1819 as seen through the eyes of Percy Bysshe Shelley. It depicts the king as old, mad, blind and despised. The princes are described as draining the country like mud from a muddy spring. The rulers neither see, feel nor know what is happening to the fainting country. The people are starved and stabbed in the untilled fields, while the army preys upon the people. Golden and sanguine laws tempt and slay the population. Religion is described as Christless and Godless. The senate remains the worst statute, unrepealed. However, Shelley believes a glorious phantom may burst forth from these graves to illuminate their

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    England in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry Foundation

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    This poem describes the state of England in 1819 as seen through the eyes of Percy Bysshe Shelley. It depicts the king as old, mad, blind and despised. The princes are described as draining the country like mud from a muddy spring. The rulers neither see, feel nor know what is happening to the fainting country. The people are starved and stabbed in the untilled fields, while the army preys upon the people. Golden and sanguine laws tempt and slay the population. Religion is described as Christless and Godless. The senate remains the worst statute, unrepealed. However, Shelley believes a glorious phantom may burst forth from these graves to illuminate their

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    England in 1819

    BY P E R C Y BYS S H E S H E L L E Y

    An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;


    Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
    Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
    Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
    But leechlike to their fainting country cling
    Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
    A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
    An army, whom liberticide and prey
    Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
    Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
    Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
    A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
    Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
    Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.

    Source: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume Two Seventh Edition (2000)

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