Shelley, the ceaseless music of thy soul Breathes in the Cloud and in the Skylark's song, That float as an embodied dream along The dewy lids of morning. In the dole That haunts the West Wind, in the joyous roll Of Arethusan fountains, or among The wastes where Ozymandias the strong Lies in colossal ruin, thy control Speaks in the wedded rhyme. Thy spirit gave A fragrance to all nature and a tone To inexpressive silence. Each apart -- Earth, Air, and Ocean -- claims thee as its own; The twain that bred thee, and the panting wave That clasped thee like an overflowing heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAR VERSE (1914) by EZRA POUND TO HIS MISTRESS by ABRAHAM COWLEY LOVE'S CAUTION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE NIGHTINGALE by PHILIP SIDNEY RAIN ON FALL NIGHTS by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE |