by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Rough wind that moanest loud
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Rough wind that moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, -- Wail, for the world's wrong!
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View text with all available footnotesPublished by Mrs. Shelley in Posthumous Poems, 1824.
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- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "A Dirge", written 1822, first published 1824 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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