Prometheus Unbound, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prometheus' opening monologue.
Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, for ever!
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
I ask the Earth, have not the mountains felt?
I ask yon Heaven, the all-beholding Sun,
Has it not seen? The Sea, in storm or calm,
Heaven's ever-changing Shadow, spread below,
Have its deaf waves not heard my agony?
Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, for ever!
Prometheus' liver about to be eaten by a vulture brought by Hermes (Mercury) by Zeus (Jupiter) - a cruel cycle that, according to Hesiod, is repeated daily after his liver has regenerated. Art by Gustave Moreau.
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