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Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley


A Dirge


Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,—
Wail, for the world's wrong!



Percy Bysshe Shelley


Percy Bysshe Shelley's other poems:
  1. Homer's Hymn to Minerva
  2. From the Arabic, an Imitation
  3. Matilda Gathering Flowers
  4. Bereavement
  5. The Fitful Alternations of the Rain


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Alfred Tennyson A Dirge ("Now is done thy long day's work")
  • Amy Levy A Dirge ("”Mein Herz, mein Herz ist traurig")
  • Ella Wilcox A Dirge ("Death and a dirge at midnight;")
  • Menella Smedley A Dirge ("Let her rest!")
  • Madison Cawein A Dirge ("Life has fled; she is dead")
  • James Lowell A Dirge ("Poet! lonely is thy bed")
  • Thomas Parsons A Dirge ("Slowly tread, and gently bear")
  • Christina Rossetti A Dirge ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")

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