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Updated: May 22, 2025

Fascinated, I stood, more fixedly fascinated when a voice rewarded the attention of my strained ear so low, so self-addressed, I never fancied the speaker otherwise than alone; solitude might speak thus in a desert, or in the hall of a forsaken house. "'And ne'er but once, my son, he said, 'Was yon dark cavern trod; In persecution's iron days, When the land was left by God.

Charlotte Brontë - The Professor

Of that persecution's effect upon him, he has left us, in The Revolt of Islam, a picture which to many or most people very probably seems a poetical exaggeration; partly because Shelley appears to have escaped physical brutality, partly because adults are inclined to smile tenderly at childish sorrows which are not caused by physical suffering.

Francis Thompson - Shelley; an essay