duckwhatduck:

sea-change:

[percy shelley’s grave marker (he was cremated after he was drowned)]

“Her dear heart’s confessor – a heart within that heart.”

— the final line of volume one of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, published in 1826.

#byron & co. 
#BUT THE HEART DIDN’T BURN AND THERE WAS A FIGHT OVER IT ON THE BEACH
#AND MARY SHELLEY KEPT IT

ROMANTICS