When soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone,--
Laugh--for ambushed in the day,--
Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.
Classic poem
Fragment: 'When Soft Winds and Sunny Skies'
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- When soft winds and sunny skies
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Themes
- nature, death, hope, faith
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