London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.

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Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 193.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 193.