Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE AZIOLA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY


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First Line: Do you not hear the aziola cry?
Last Line: Loved thee and thy sad cry.


"Do you not hear the aziola cry?
Methinks she must be nigh -- '
Said Mary as we sate
In dusk, ere stars were lit or candles brought --
And I who thought
This Aziola was some tedious woman
Asked, "Who is Aziola?' -- how elate
I felt to know that it was nothing human,
No mockery of myself to fear or hate!
And Mary saw my soul,
And laughed and said -- "Disquiet yourself not,
'Tis nothing but a little downy owl.'
Sad aziola, many an eventide
Thy music I had heard
By wood and stream, meadow and mountainside,
And fields and marshes wide,
Such as nor voice, nor lute, nor wind, nor bird
The soul ever stirred --
Unlike and far sweeter than them all.
Sad aziola, from that moment I
Loved thee and thy sad cry.





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