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Poem of the Day: ‘The Cold Earth Slept Below’ 

There is something premonitory about this poem, with its overt merging of winter imagery with that of decay and death.

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley, detail, after Amelia Curran (1775–1847).
Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley, detail, after Amelia Curran (1775–1847). Via Wikimedia Commons