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TIME. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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TIME.

  • Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
  • Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
  • Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
  • Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
  • Claspest the limits of mortality!
  • And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
  • Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore,
  • Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
  • Who shall put forth on thee,
  • Unfathomable Sea?