1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Is washed up on the shore of Italy
His friends Byron, Leigh Hunt and Trelawny
Cremated him there for health and safety
Reasons, though legend has it that Mary
His wife, or Hunt, grabbed from the funerary
Pyre, Shelley's smoking heart, eventually
Buried in Bournemouth, on her death. Did he
Help Mary to write Frankenstein? Likely
Since he did write its foreword, and probably
Helped her with the plot. He was thought badly
Of by his contemporaries, too free
In many ways, leaving wife and baby
And roaming Switzerland and Italy
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