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    Proserpine and Midas
    Proserpine and Midas
    Proserpine and Midas
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    Proserpine and Midas

    By Mary Shelley

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    The Hours have oped the palace of the dawn
    And through the Eastern gates of Heaven, Aurora
    Comes charioted on light, her wind-swift steeds,
    Winged with roseate clouds, strain up the steep.
    She loosely holds the reins, her golden hair,
    Its strings outspread by the sweet morning breeze[,]
    Blinds the pale stars. Our rural tasks begin;
    The young lambs bleat pent up within the fold,
    The herds low in their stalls, & the blithe cock
    Halloos most loudly to his distant mates.
    But who are these we see? these are not men,
    Divine of form & sple[n]didly arrayed,
    They sit in solemn conclave. Is that Pan,
    Our Country God, surrounded by his Fauns?
    And who is he whose crown of gold & harp
    Are attributes of high Apollo?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Release dateMar 14, 2016
    ISBN9788892569966
    Proserpine and Midas
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    Mary Shelley

    Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in 1797, the daughter of two of the leading radical writers of the age. Her mother died just days after her birth and she was educated at home by her father and encouraged in literary pursuits. She eloped with and subsequently married the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but their life together was full of hardship. The couple were ruined by disapproving parents and Mary lost three of her four children. Although its subject matter was extremely dark, her first novel Frankenstein (1818) was an instant sensation. Subsequent works such as Mathilda (1819), Valperga (1823) and The Last Man (1826) were less successful but are now finally receiving the critical acclaim that they deserve.

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