Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems

The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower, --
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I

AND, like a dying lady lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
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The pale, the cold, and the moony smile
Which the meteor beam of a starless night
Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle,
Ere the dawning of morn's undoubted light,
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And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calm
In cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?
Can you, ye flow'rets, spread your perfumed balm
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SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave,
   Spirit of Night!
Out of the misty eastern cave,--
Where, all the long and lone daylight,
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I.
In the cave which wild weeds cover
Wait for thine aethereal lover;
For the pallid moon is waning,
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I.
As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea,
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BEST and brightest, come away!
Fairer far than this fair Day,
Which, like thee to those in sorrow,
Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow
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I.
Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
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