Fragment: ‘my Head is Wild with Weeping'
A grieving speaker walks into the air without seeking relief and wonders why a chief among human spirits should be cold and blind.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry · 75 words
First lines
My head is wild with weeping for a grief / Which is the shadow of a gentle mind. / I walk into the air (but no relief / To seek,-or haply, if I sought, to find; / It came unsought); -to wonder that a chief / Among men's spirits should be cold and blind.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Six rhyming lines express a speaker's grief, movement into the air, and bewilderment at another's coldness.
Tags
grief · weeping · relief · lyric fragment
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Fragment: ‘my Head is Wild with Weeping' is listed on Textopian as a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, dated Date unknown.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry
- Length: 75 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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