Nature
Fragment: Rain
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
The fitful alternations of the rain,
When the chill wind, languid as with pain
Of its own heavy moisture, here and there
Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere.
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Rain.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/184/.
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