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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The Fitful Alternations of the Rain


              1The fitful alternations of the rain,
              2When the chill wind, languid as with pain
              3Of its own heavy moisture, here and there
              4Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere.

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 Rain.

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 2.582.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/24

Rhyme: aabb

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