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Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Recollection, The

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

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Recollection, The

Now the last day of many days All beautiful and bright as thou, The loveliest and the last, is dead: Rise, Memory, and write its praise! Up, do thy wonted work! come, trace The epitaph of glory fled, For now the earth has changed its face, A frown is on the Heaven's brow.

We wander'd to the Pine Forest That skirts the Ocean's foam; The lightest wind was in its nest, The tempest in its home. The whispering waves were half asleep, The clouds were gone to play, And on the bosom of the deep The smile of Heaven lay; It seem'd as if the hour were one Sent from ...

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