The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/The Waning Moon
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THE WANING MOON
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824.]
And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East, 5
A white and shapeless mass—
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East, 5
A white and shapeless mass—