Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). A Widow Bird. Robert Bridges, ed. 1916. The Spirit of Man: An Anthology

Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916.

A Widow Bird

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)


A WIDOW 1 bird sate mourning for her love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,	5
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel’s sound.

Note 1. Shelley. Song in ‘Charles I’. [back]