1	Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 - 1827
2	Life Spirit of revolution and the power of free thought -- Shelley's biggest passions in life. Sent away to boarding school at ten. While attending school, he was taunted by schoolmates. They called him "Mad Shelley".
3	"Throughout his life," Throughout his life, his political and religious views got him into trouble or controversy. He hated the monarchy and aristocracy. He was a great believer in the idea of the power of the human mind to change circumstances for the better, in a non-violent way. In 1811 Shelley wrote The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley and his friend Hogg were expelled from Oxford. This greatly upset Shelley's father and grandfather. Their relationship was never completely mended.
4	"Although he disliked the institution..." Although he disliked the institution of marriage, he eloped in 1811 with sixteen year-old Harriet Westbrook. Shelley continued to write political pamphlets, often sending them out in bottles or homemade paper boats over the water, or inside fire balloons into the sky. In 1813, Elizabeth Ianthe was born. By 1814, Shelley had fallen in love with Mary Godwin, which upset both Harriet and Mary's father.
5	"When Mary was persuaded to..." When Mary was persuaded to stop seeing Shelley for a little while, he showed up at her house with laudanum and a pistol, threatening to commit suicide. Later, they traveled around Europe with Mary's sister. In 1814, Mary was pregnant and Harriet gave birth to Charles, but Shelley did not love her anymore. Mary gave birth to a tiny girl in 1815, but it died within a few weeks. She was soon pregnant again, and gave birth to a son, William, in early 1816. In 1816, Harriet's body was found in November, drowned (suicide?). Percy then proposed to Mary and they were married on December 30, 1816.
6	"In 1817 daughter Clara was..." In 1817 daughter Clara was born. She died in 1818 in Mary's arms. Little William gets sick and dies in 1819. Later that year, Percy Florence was born. Stress begins to wear on Percy.
7	Death Shelley drowned in 1827 while sailing. Shelley's body washed ashore several days later. His body was burned on the beach. Bryon was in attendance. His heart, which refused to burn, was given to his wife Mary. Shelley's ashes were stored in a wine cellar before being buried. 'Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange'
8	Ozymandias This is a poem written about Ramses II in a contest with another poet named Horace Smith. Ramses II is a great king of Egypt. Not to be confused with UNC’s mascot or the superhero from The Watchmen.
9	Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
10	Ozymandias Horace Smith In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desart knows: -- "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand." -- The City's gone, -- Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this forgotten Babylon. We wonder, -- and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
11	"The fountains mingle with the..." The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by law divine In one another's being mingle;-- Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea; What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
12	"Music," Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory-- Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts when thou are gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
13	"One word is too often..." One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens reject not,-- The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?