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Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Written Among The Euganean Hills, North Italy

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Written Among The Euganean Hills, North Italy

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and man, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track; Whilst above, the sunless sky Big with clouds, hangs heavily, And behind the tempest fleet Hurries on with lightning feet, Riving sail, and cord, and plank, Till the ship has almost drank Death from the o'er - brimming deep; And sinks down, down, like that sleep When the dreamer seems to be ...

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