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" The Moon

And, like a dying lady lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd 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
A white and shapeless mass.

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? "

Percy Bysshe Shelley , The Complete Poems


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Percy Bysshe Shelley quote : <b>The Moon</b><br /><br />And, like a dying lady lean and pale,<br />Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,<br />Out of her chamber, led by the insane<br />And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,<br />The moon arose up in the murky east<br />A white and shapeless mass.<br /><br />Art thou pale for weariness<br />Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,<br />Wandering companionless<br />Among the stars that have a different birth,<br />And ever changing, like a joyless eye<br />That finds no object worth its constancy?