The World is Dreary by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The speaker laments wandering without Mary and recalls the joy once found in her voice and smile. With that joy gone, the speaker feels they too should be gone.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry · 57 words
First lines
The world is dreary, / And I am weary / Of wandering on without thee, Mary; / A joy was erewhile / In thy voice and thy smile, / And 'tis gone, when I should be gone too, Mary.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Six rhyming lines express the speaker's weariness and longing through a direct address to Mary.
- Melancholic Poetry — The speaker finds the world dreary and contrasts remembered joy in Mary's voice and smile with its present absence.
Tags
longing · separation · weariness · lost joy
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry
- Length: 57 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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