512. A Widow Bird. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1909-14. English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics

English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

512. A Widow Bird

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)


A WIDOW bird sate mourning for her Love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above
The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,	5
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel’s sound.