Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Dirge (1822)

Rough wind, that moanest loud
   Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
   Knells all the night long;
Sad storm whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whole branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main, --
   Wail, for the world's wrong!

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