To the Moon

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

I

      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?

II

      Thou chosen sister of the Spirit,

That gazes on thee till in thee it pities....

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