A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
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.
A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing stream below.
There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel's sound.