| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 53952 |
| QUOTATION: | There was no corn—in the wide market-place
All loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold;
They weighed it in small scales—and many a face
Was fixt in eager horror then; his gold
The miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold
Through hunger, bared her scornèd charms in vain. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), British poet. The Revolt of Islam, cto. 10. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shelley Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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