FRAGMENT: RAIN.
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.]
The fitful alternations of the rain,
When the chill wind, languid as with pain
Of its own heavy moisture, here and there
Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere.
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FRAGMENT: A TALE UNTOLD.
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.]
One sung of thee who left the tale untold,
Like the false dawns which perish in the bursting;
Like empty cups of wrought and daedal gold,
Which mock the lips with air, when they are thirsting.
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FRAGMENT: TO ITALY.
[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862.]