'My head is wild with weeping'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

My head is wild with weeping for a grief

Which is the shadow of a gentle mind.

I walk into the air (but no relief

To seek,—or haply, if I sought, to find;

It came unsought);—to wonder that a chief

Among men's spirits should be cold and blind.

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