The Waning Moon

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.]



And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East,                                 _5
A white and shapeless mass--