Nature
Wake the serpent not
From Poems of 1819
Nature
Wake the serpent not—lest he
Should not know the way to go,—
Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping
Through the deep grass of the meadow!
Not a bee shall hear him creeping,
Not a may-fly shall awaken
From its cradling blue-bell shaken,
Not the starlight as he’s sliding
Through the grass with silent gliding.
Cite this poem
MLA
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Wake the serpent not.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/56/.
Chicago
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Wake the serpent not.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/56/.
Read this poem with the Codex →