from the Division of Nothing Ever Changes

Sep 26, 2008 09:29

Some poetry for you.

Sonnet: England in 1819
Percy Bysshe ShelleyAn old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ( Read more... )

sonnets, people are alike all over, politics, poetry, poetry: 19th century

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angevin2 September 26 2008, 14:59:19 UTC
Oh man, that one's even MORE depressing.

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angevin2 September 26 2008, 15:08:47 UTC
IN
FUCKING
DEED

...Wordsworth's sonnet about Milton is also pretty applicable, though less depressing. Also, "Maniac Maid" would be a fantastic screen name.

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quietprofanity September 26 2008, 16:06:25 UTC
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, --

Duuuuuuuuude. :(

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jaydeyn_sitari September 27 2008, 00:38:39 UTC

How completely and scarily accurate! :( Well done, dude who died two centuries ago.

Doomed to repeat and all that. :( *glum*

:)
Jaydeyn

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