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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale


              1And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
              2Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
              3Out of her chamber, led by the insane
              4And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
              5The moon arose up in the murky East,
              6A white and shapeless mass--

Notes

1] These are among the many short fragments from Shelley's MSS. published by Mary Shelley, the poet's wife, in her editions of 1824 and 1839. There she entitles this poem The Waning Moon.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems, ed. Mary Shelley (1824). Cf. Posthumous Poems of Shelley. Mary Shelley's Fair Copy Book, Bodleian MS. Shelley Adds. d. 9, Collated with the Holographs and the Printed Texts, ed. Irving Massey (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1969). PR 5403 M27 ROBA. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetical Works, ed. Mary Shelley (London: E. Moxon, 1839). PR 5402 1870 ROBA.
First publication date: 1824
Publication date note: 1824, 1839
RPO poem editor: M. T. Wilson
RP edition: 3RP 2.583.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/24

Rhyme: aabbcd

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