Nature
The rude wind is singing
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
The rude wind is singing
The dirge of the music dead;
The cold worms are clinging
Where kisses were lately fed.
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Codex Note
Written 1821. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “The rude wind is singing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/207/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “The rude wind is singing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/207/.
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