The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/To the Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

For other versions of this work, see To the Moon (Shelley).

TO THE MOON

[Published (I) by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824, (II) by W. M. Rossetti, Complete P. W., 1870.]

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 5
That finds no object worth its constancy?

II.
 Thou chosen sister of the Spirit,
That gazes on thee till in thee it pities . . . .