Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822
609. The Moon
1 min to read 83 words
I
AND, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, The mood arose up in the murky east, A white and shapeless mass.
II
Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822
610. Ode to the West Wind
2 mins to read 550 words
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