I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow; A mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: How the chimney-sweeper’s cry Every blackening church appals, And the hapless soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down palace-walls. But most, through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot’s curse Blasts the new-born infant’s tear, And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. William Blake
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Percy Bysshe Shelley illustrates the harsh reality of human suffering in his poem, "Ode to the West Wind." The poet describes the many ways in which human suffering is inflicted on others.

Source: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience

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