My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
Classic poem
Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude
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About this poem
- First line
- My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Themes
- nature, death, hope, solitude
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