{"product_id":"the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-mug","title":"The Midnight Moon — P. Shelley Mutability Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eShelley wrote \"Mutability\" in his early twenties, before he had much to lose. He still got the feeling exactly right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley, \"Mutability\" (1816)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon...\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShelley was 24 when he wrote \"Mutability\" and already understood something most people spend decades avoiding: everything passes, we pass with it, and the right response isn’t grief but clarity. The clouds don’t mourn the moon they’re covering — they keep moving. This is the mug for the morning when you hold something warm and understand it’s temporary — the coffee, the quiet, the hour — and decide that’s exactly what makes it worth holding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree lines of the poem over a warm burnished rule, attribution in warm gray beneath — the same composition wrapping both sides of the mug. The ellipsis trails the way the poem does: not a conclusion, a dissolution. The mood doesn’t pick sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available: the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-t-shirt\"\u003eMidnight Moon Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-journal\"\u003eJournal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Mutability\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 oz — substantial, not a collection piece\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy black ceramic — the ellipsis trails on both sides, no resolution by design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo-sided print — the quote wraps the mug, facing you whether you reach left or right\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrowave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who holds the morning deliberately. The one who has made peace with change. Anyone who has ever looked at something temporary and loved it more for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHold it. It won’t last. That’s the point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1792–1822, England\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote \"Ode to the West Wind,\" \"Ozymandias,\" \"Adonais,\" and \"To a Skylark\" — each now a standard of the English canon; none widely read while he was alive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe ellipsis in \"We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon...\" is the original — the poem continues, but the line is already complete; Shelley lets it trail because that’s what transience does\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis circle included Byron, Keats, and his wife Mary — four people who between them produced more enduring work in a decade than most movements manage in a century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrowned at 29 while sailing in a storm off the Italian coast in 1822\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42647153115230,"sku":"6315321_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Midnight_Moon_Mug_Percy_Bysshe_Shelley.png?v=1776233817","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-mug","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}