by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

Language: English 
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...

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Composition:

    Set to music by Bernard Rands (b. 1934), "The waning moon", published 1980, first performed 1981, stanza 1 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Canti lunatici, no. 14, London : Universal Edition

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Mizící měsíc", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901


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Word count: 81