The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Passage of the Apennines
PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES
[Composed May 4, 1818. Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824. There is a copy amongst the Shelley MSS. at the Bodleian Library, which supplies the last word of the fragment.]
Listen, listen, Mary mine,To the whisper of the Apennine,It bursts on the roof like the thunder's roar,Or like the sea on a northern shore, Heard in its raging ebb and flow 5 By the captives pent in the cave below. The Apennine in the light of day Is a mighty mountain dim and gray, Which between the earth and sky doth lay; But when night comes, a chaos dread 10 On the dim starlight then is spread. And the Apennine walks abroad with the storm, Shrouding . . .