by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
And, like a dying lady, lean and pale
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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 moon arose up in the murky East, A white and shapeless mass... 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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- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "The waning moon", first published 1824 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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