Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WANING MOON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY



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First Line: And, like a dying lady lean and pale
Last Line: A white and shapeless mass.
Variant Title(s): To The Moon (3)
Subject(s): 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 mood arose up in the murky east,
A white and shapeless mass.




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