. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... The Tower of Famine MID the desolation of a was the cradle, and is now the graveOf an extinguished people; sothat pity-Weeps oer the shipwrecks of oblivions wave,There stands the Tower of Famine. It is builtUpon some prison homes, whose dwellers rave For bread, and gold, and blood: pain, linked to guilt,Agitates the light flame of their its vital oil is spent or spilt:283 Poems Written in 1820 There stands the pile, a tower amid the towersAnd sacred domes ; each marble-ribbed roof,The brazen-gated temples, and the bowers

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. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... The Tower of Famine MID the desolation of a was the cradle, and is now the graveOf an extinguished people; sothat pity-Weeps oer the shipwrecks of oblivions wave,There stands the Tower of Famine. It is builtUpon some prison homes, whose dwellers rave For bread, and gold, and blood: pain, linked to guilt,Agitates the light flame of their its vital oil is spent or spilt:283 Poems Written in 1820 There stands the pile, a tower amid the towersAnd sacred domes ; each marble-ribbed roof,The brazen-gated temples, and the bowers Of solitary wealth ; the tempest-proofPavilions of the dark Italian air,Are by its presence dimmed — they standaloof. And are withdrawn — so that the world is if a spectre wrapt in shapeless terrorAmid a company of ladies fair Should glide and glow, till it became a mirrorOf all their beauty, and their hair and hue,The life of their sweet eyes, with all its be absorbed, till they to marble grew.

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