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Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:21Movement:Romanticism
As from an ancestral oakTwo empty ravens sound their clarion,Yell by yell, and croak by croak,When they scent the noonday smokeOf fresh human carrion:-- As two gibbering night-birds flitFrom their bowers of deadly yewThrough the night to frighten it,When the moon is in a fit,And the stars are none, or few:-- As a shark and dog-fish waitUnder an Atlantic isle,For the negro-ship, whose freightIs the theme of their debate,Wrinkling their red gills the while-- Are ye, two vultures sick for battle,Two scorpions under one wet stone,Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle,Two crows perched on the murrained cattle,Two vipers tangled into one. **