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A DIRGE. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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A DIRGE.

  • Rough wind, that moanest loud
  • Grief too sad for song;
  • Wild wind, when sullen cloud
  • Knells all the night long;
  • Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
  • Bare woods, whose branches stain,
  • Deep caves and dreary main,
  • Wail, for the world’s wrong!