Nature
Fragment: To the Moon
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven,
To whom alone it has been given
To change and be adored for ever,
Envy not this dim world, for never
But once within its shadow grew
One fair as—
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Codex Note
Written 1822. Published 1862.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: To the Moon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/213/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: To the Moon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/213/.
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