Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A LOST LEADER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is wild with weeping for a grief Last Line: Among men's spirits should be cold and blind. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
MY head is wild with weeping for a grief Which is the shadow of a gentle mind. I walk into the air (but no relief To seek, -- or haply, if I sought, to find; It came unsought); -- to wonder that a chief Among men's spirits should be cold and blind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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