The Moon
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Moon was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
I
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 mood arose up in the murky east,
A white and shapeless mass.
II
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?
7
Create a library and add your favorite stories. Get started by clicking the "Add" button.
Add The Moon to your own personal library.
Add The Moon to your own personal library.
Return to the Percy Bysshe Shelley Home Page, or . . . Read the next poem; To a Skylark
