Fragment: to One Singing by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The speaker likens their spirit, borne into rapture by someone's singing, to a swift boat travelling down a winding river through dark forests.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry · 61 words
First lines
My spirit like a charmed bark doth swim / Upon the liquid waves of thy sweet singing, / Far far away into the regions dim
Of rapture-as a boat, with swift sails winging / Its way adown some many-winding river, / Speeds through dark forests o'er the waters swinging...
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — A first-person speaker addresses a singer and expresses their inward response through a sustained comparison with a boat's movement.
Tags
singing · rapture · river imagery · lyric poetry
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry
- Length: 61 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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