Far, Far Away, o Ye by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The speaker urges the halcyons of memory to leave and bring no false spring to a heart in winter. Vultures nesting in the future are imagined feeding on withered hopes and dying joys.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry · 140 words
First lines
1.
Far, far away, O ye / Halcyons of Memory, / Seek some far calmer nest / Than this abandoned breast! / No news of your false spring / To my heart's winter bring, / Once having gone, in vain / Ye come again.
2.
Vultures, who build your bowers / High in the Future's towers, / Withered hopes on hopes are spread! / Dying joys, choked by the dead, / Will serve your beaks for prey / Many a day.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Two short rhymed stanzas express the speaker's desolation through addresses to the birds of memory and the future.
- Melancholic Poetry — The abandoned breast, heart's winter, withered hopes, and dying joys sustain a mood of desolation.
Tags
memory · disappointed hopes · future · sorrow · bird imagery
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry
- Length: 140 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
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