XI

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of To the Lord Chancellor

By thy most impious Hell, and all its terror;

By all the grief, the madness, and the guilt

Of thine impostures, which must be their error—

That sand on which thy crumbling power is built—

#deception #existential dread #guilt #percy bysshe shelley #religious doubt

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