III

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Lines: 'The cold earth slept below'

Thine eyes glowed in the glare

Of the moon's dying light;

As a fen-fire's beam on a sluggish stream

Gleams dimly, so the moon shone there,

And it yellowed the strings of thy raven hair,

That shook in the wind of night.

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