Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aug. 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822

 

Fragment: To The Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven,
To whom alone it has been given
To change and be adored for ever,
Envy not this dim world, for never
But once within its shadow grew
One fair as --

Published 1862.

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.