The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/A Hate-Song

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A HATE-SONG

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

A Hater he came and sat by a ditch, And he took an old cracked lute;And he sang a song which was more of a screcch 'Gainst a woman that was a brute.