Out of this mood come most of his longer poems, like Queen Mab, Revolt of Islam, Hellas, and The Witch of Atlas, which are somewhat violent diatribes against government, priests, marriage, religion, even God as men supposed him to be.

But the Roman police was not disposed like the Attic to hold stage- invectives and political diatribes as privileged, or even to tolerate them at all.

It was broken with exclamations and involved with wandering sophistries and diatribes of self-blame.

Peter stopped with a shock of surprise, then listened to the whole diatribe with a rising sense of irritation and irony.