Percy Bysshe Shelley


To the Moon                        

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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