Shelley Memorial, Christchurch Priory, Dorset

"Till fair England be your Sepulchre"

Shelley Memorial, Henry Weekes, Christchurch Priory, Dorset

From Victorian Web 

http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/weekes/8.html

"The monument, which was erected by the poet's son who lived nearby at Boscombe, had previously been refused by St Peter's Chruch in Bournemouth where Mary was buried together with her husband's heart. The memorial shows Mary Wollstenecraft Shelley mourning over the body of her husband who drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822".

Photograph and text by Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Shelley family connections to Bournemouth

(Bournemouth Echo)

Bournemouth Blue Plaques: No. 22 - Shelley Burial Vault, St Peter's Churchyard

cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Mike Searle - geograph.org.uk/p/4429921

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley blue plaque in Bournemouth, Blue Plaque Places

"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

"O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, 

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead 

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing".

Hellas

Men of England

Men of England, wherefore plough 

For the lords who lay ye low?

Wherefore weave with toil and care 

The rich robes your tyrants wear?