'O that a Chariot of Cloud were mine'

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

O that a chariot of cloud were mine!

Of cloud which the wild tempest weaves in air,

When the moon over the ocean's line

Is spreading the locks of her bright gray hair.

O that a chariot of cloud were mine!

I would sail on the waves of the billowy wind

To the mountain peak and the rocky lake,

And the...

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