XIV

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

From shape, and hue, and odour, and sweet sound,

      Lamented Adonais. Morning sought

      Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound,

      Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground,


Dimm'd the aëreal eyes that kindle day;

      Afar the melancholy thunder moaned,

      Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay,

And the wild Winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay.

#elegy #grief #melancholy #mourning #nature #percy bysshe shelley

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