Percy Bysshe Shelley -- ROSALIND AND HELEN. A MODERN ECLOGUE.

Gloom, and the trance of Nature now:
The snake is in his cave asleep;
The birds are on the branches dreaming:
Only the shadows creep:
Only the glow-worm is gleaming: _135
Only the owls and the nightingales
Wake in this dell when daylight fails,
And gray shades gather in the woods:
And the owls have all fled far away
In a merrier glen to hoot and play, _140
For the moon is veiled and sleeping now.


Percy Bysshe Shelley -- ROSALIND AND HELEN. A MODERN ECLOGUE.