Time (Shelley)

Time by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
    Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
  Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
    Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
  Claspest the limits of mortality!
  And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
  Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
      Who shall put forth on thee,
      Unfathomable Sea?

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.