Poem A Day

Classic poem

Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou

Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged

Of one abyss, where life, and truth, and joy

Are swallowed up--yet spare me, Spirit, pity me,

Until the sounds I hear become my soul,

And it has left these faint and weary limbs,

To track along the lapses of the air

This wandering melody until it rests

Among lone mountains in some...

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About this poem

First line
Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou
Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Themes
nature, death, solitude, faith

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