Time
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Time” first appeared in “Posthumous Poems”, published in 1824 by his wife, the writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Warnham, West Sussex, England, and he died on 8 July 1822 in Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy), at the age of 29.A poet, dramatist, and essayist, Shelley was a radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views. He did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets.
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Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore; Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea?