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To the Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Romantic · Short · 8 linesnight

Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy? Thou chosen sister of the Spirit, That grazes on thee till in thee it pities...

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Matched by documented rules, not taste: two points for every theme tag a poem shares with To the Moon, one point for the same era, one for a similar length.

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