I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud

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Topic

Rain Flowers

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

The Cloud

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Cloud." Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts, With Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Cloud." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

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Topic
Fear of death

Author

William Hazlitt
Language
English
Time
1822 1820s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.