“Poor captive bird! Who, from thy narrow cage,
Pourest such music, that it might assuage
The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee,
Were they not deaf to all sweet melody.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion

Source: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 9

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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