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TO THE MOON. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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TO THE MOON.

  • 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?