III
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
And from its head as from one body grow,
Asgrass out of a watery rock.
Hairs which are vipers, and they curl and flow
And their long tangles in each other lock,
And with unending involutions show
Their mailèd radiance, as it were to mock
The torture and the death within, and saw
The solid air with many a ragged jaw.