XXI

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

She looked, the flames were dim, the flood

Grew tranquil as a woodland river

Winding through hills in solitude;

Those marble shapes then seemed to quiver,

And their fair limbs to float in motion,

Like weeds unfolding in the ocean.

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