by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

A widow bird sate mourning for her love
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Language: English 
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A widow bird sate mourning for her love
  Upon a wintry bough,
The frozen wind crept on above;
  The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
  No flower upon the ground
And little motion in the air,
  Except the mill-wheel's sound.

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