Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aug. 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822

 

To One Singing (A Fragment)

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

My spirit like a charmèd bark doth swim
Upon the liquid waves of thy sweet singing,
Far far away into the regions dim

Of rapture--as a boat, with swift sails winging
Its way adown some many-winding river,
Speeds through dark forests o'er the waters swinging ...

1817.
Published 1839, 1st Ed. and 1903

Source:

The Lyrics and Shorter Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Copyright 1907, reprinted 1913
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.