Recreation, Vessel Loss

Memorial: M1867

Monument in Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset, commemorating the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley d. 1822

Location

Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset, England

Transcript

'TO THE MEMORY OF / PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY / BORN AT FIELD PLACE IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX AUGUST 4TH 1792 / DROWNED BY THE UPSETTING OF HIS BOAT IN THE GULF OF SPEZZIA JULY 8TH 1822 / HIS ASHES ARE INTERRED IN THE PROTESTANT BURIAL GROUND AT ROME / ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF / MARY WOLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY HIS WIDOW. BORN AUGUST 30 1797 DIED FEBRUARY 1 1851 / HER REMAINS ARE INTERRED TOGETHER WITH THOSE OF HER FATHER WILLIAM GODWIN / AND HER MOTHER MARY WOLSTONECRAFT GODWIN / IN THE CHURCHYARD AT BOURNEMOUTH / HE HAS OUT-SOARED THE SHADOW OF OUR NIGHT / ENVY AND CALUMNY AND HATE AND PAIN / AND THAT UNREST WHICH MEN MISCALL DELIGHT, / CAN TOUCH HIM NOT AND TORTURE NOT AGAIN / FROM THE CONTAGION OF THE WORLD'S SLOW STAIN / HE IS SECURE, AND NOW CAN NEVER TURN / A HEART GROWN COLD, A HEAD GROWN GREY IN VAIN / NOR WHEN THE SPIRITS SELF HAS CEASED TO BURN / WITH SPARKLESS ASHES LOAD AN UNLAMENTED URN'

Details

Description: On a rocky beach, the reclining body of the dead poet clad in trousers, is supported in the lap of his wife Mary. The bow of his boat is shown to the right. The inscription below.

Type: Monument
Position: Under the tower
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: 1854
Artists: H. Weekes
Vessel: Don Juan

People

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Age: 29
Date of Death: 8/7/1822
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Poet
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: Poet, drowned in yachting accident. Monument originally intended for St Peter Bournemouth where his heart is buried. The memorial was originally surrounded by railings, now removed.

Bibliography: Dr Garnet 'The Shelley Monuments', 'Illustrated London News' (May 21, 1892) p. 627; Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd 'Buildings of England: Hampshire and Isle of Wight' (London, 1996).

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters