To the Moon / Percy Bysshe Shelley

To the Moon 

          Art thou pale for weariness?
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
          Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,–
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

from Posthumous Poems, 1824

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

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