Percy Bysshe Shelley: 'O That a Chariot of Cloud Were Mine'

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Otho
Fragment: Satan Broken Loose

'O That a Chariot of Cloud Were Mine'

Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862.

O that a chariot of cloud were mine!
Of cloud which the wild tempest weaves in air,
When the moon over the ocean's line
Is spreading the locks of her bright gray hair.
O that a chariot of cloud were mine!
I would sail on the waves of the billowy wind
To the mountain peak and the rocky lake,
And the...
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