Nature

To the Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822

From Poems of 1820

Nature

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

Thou chosen sister of the Spirit,
That grazes on thee till in thee it pities...

MLA

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “To the Moon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/73/.

Chicago

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “To the Moon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/73/.

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