. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... The Boat on the Serchio UR boat is asleep on Serchiosstream,Its sails are folded like thoughtsin a dream,The helm sways idly, hither and thither ; Dominic, the boatman, has brought the mast,And the oars and the sails; but tis sleeping fast,Like a beast, unconscious of its The stars burnt out in the pale blue the thin white moon lay withering tower, and cavern, and rift and owl and the bat fled drowsily. 295 Poems Written in 1821 Day had kindled the dewy woods, And the rocks above and the stream below,And the v
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... The Boat on the Serchio UR boat is asleep on Serchiosstream,Its sails are folded like thoughtsin a dream,The helm sways idly, hither and thither ; Dominic, the boatman, has brought the mast,And the oars and the sails; but tis sleeping fast,Like a beast, unconscious of its The stars burnt out in the pale blue the thin white moon lay withering tower, and cavern, and rift and owl and the bat fled drowsily. 295 Poems Written in 1821 Day had kindled the dewy woods, And the rocks above and the stream below,And the vapours in their multitudes, And the Apennines shroud of summersnow,And clothed with light of aery goldThe mists in their eastern caves uprolled. Day had awakened all things that be, The lark and the thrush and the swallow free. And the milkmaids song and the the matin-bell and the mountain bee:Fireflies were quenched on the dewy corn, Glowworms went out on the rivers brim Like lamps which a student forgets to trim :The beetle forgot to wind his horn, The crickets were still in the meadow andhill:Like a flock of rooks at a farmers gunNights dreams and terrors, every from the brains which are their preyFrom the lamps death to the morning The Boat on the Serchio All rose to do the task He se
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