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THE WANING MOON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: AND, LIKE A DYING LADY LEAN AND PALE
Last Line: A WHITE AND SHAPELESS MASS.
Subject(s): MOON;
AND, like a dying lady lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The mood arose up in the murky east,
A white and shapeless mass.


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