Lyric Poem · Nature
Liberty
1The fiery mountains answer each other;
2Their thunderings are echoed from zone to zone;
3The tempestuous oceans awake one another,
4And the ice-rocks are shaken round Winter's throne,
5When the clarion of the Typhoon is blown.
6From a single cloud the lightening flashes,
7Whilst a thousand isles are illumined around,
8Earthquake is trampling one city to ashes,
9An hundred are shuddering and tottering; the sound
10Is bellowing underground.
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“Liberty” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/liberty
Quick facts
- Poem
- Liberty
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 21 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Winter
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 21 lines · 4 stanzas of 5–6 lines
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBLiberty by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 dd7993d89a5c4c64…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.