Art thou pale for weariness

Art thou pale for weariness

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.
2Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
3      Wandering companionless
4Among the stars that have a different birth,
5And ever changing, like a joyless eye
6That finds no object worth its constancy?

Notes

1] These are among the many short fragments from Shelley's MSS. published by Mary Shelley, his wife, in her editions of 1824 and 1839. There she entitles this poem To the Moon. The first two lines of a second stanza were published by W. M. Rossetti in 1870: "Thou chosen sister of the spirit,/That gazes on thee till in thee it pities ..." Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1824
Publication Notes
1824, 1839
RPO poem Editors
M. T. Wilson
RPO Edition
3RP 2.582.
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