XIV

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Marianne's Dream

And now those raging billows came

Where that fair Lady sate, and she

Was borne towards the showering flame

By the wild waves heaped tumultuously,

And, on a little plank, the flow

Of the whirlpool bore her to and fro.

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