To the Moon
Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820
Public domain
From The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. Percy Bysshe Shelley. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,--
And ever-changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?