Nothing beside remains
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Nothing beside remains
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About this listen
When power grows impatient with restraint, poetry remembers.
This episode of Musical Poetry brings together three voices from three centuries in a single musical conversation:
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley — written in the shadow of Napoleon’s fall, reflecting on power after history has passed judgment.
The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats — written after the First World War, sensing a world where balance fails and something ancient begins to stir.
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare — offering the human voice of authority convinced that necessity excuses everything.
Rather than adapting or modernising these works, this episode lets them speak to one another — as prophecy, personality, and aftermath.
At the centre of the episode is an original musical piece built entirely from their words, arranged to reveal a pattern that repeats across history:
how power rises, how it justifies itself, and how time eventually responds.
This is not a political argument.
It is not a prediction.
It is a listening exercise, across centuries.
Stay with the episode to the end, where the three voices converge and the question they leave us with becomes unavoidable.