Nature
When soft winds and sunny skies
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
When soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone,—
Laugh—for ambushed in the day,—
Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.
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Codex Note
Written 1821. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “When soft winds and sunny skies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/205/.
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