“With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam

Canto V, st. 23
The Revolt of Islam (1817)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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