“Sweet were change,
If but a change of tortures!”

Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Context: Sweet were change,
If but a change of tortures! But to grow
A motionless rock, fast as my strong prison,
Age after age, till circling suns outnumber
The sands upon the tide-worn beach! No hope,
Or that sad mockery of hope that fools
With dull despair, spanning the infinite!
Torment unmeasurable!

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British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher 1796–1849

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