Stanzas-April, 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A speaker urges the addressee to leave an ungentle friend and a cold lover and return to a desolate home. While winds and ocean find respite, the addressee remains troubled by remembrance, repentance, two remembered voices, and a smile; the speaker promises rest in the grave.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · First published 1814 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry · 338 words
First lines
Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon, / Rapid clouds have drank the last pale beam of even: / Away! the gathering winds will call the darkness soon, / And profoundest midnight shroud the serene lights of heaven.
Pause not! The time is past! Every voice cries, Away! / Tempt not with one last tear thy friend's ungentle mood: / Thy lover's eye, so glazed and cold, dares not entreat thy stay: / Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Six rhymed quatrains sustain a direct address through repeated commands to depart and descriptions of inward distress.
- Melancholic Poetry — Bitter tears, a desolated hearth, and persistent memories leave the addressee without the repose granted to winds and ocean.
Tags
solitude · lost love · memory · repentance · death · night
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: 1814 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry
- Length: 338 words
- Structure: 1 section, 6 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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