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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Note: this is a fragment; the first two lines of a second stanza were published by W. M. Rossetti in 1870

Composition:

Set to music by Carlos Chávez (1899 - 1978), "To the Moon", published 1946, stanza 1 [ SSAATTBB chorus a cappella ], from Three Nocturnes, no. 1

Text Authorship:

• by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To the Moon", first published 1824

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

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

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-24
Line count: 8
Word count: 52