Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Isle

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

The Isle

Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.

There was a little lawny islet
By anemone and violet,
Like mosaic, paven:
And its roof was flowers and leaves
Which the summer's breath enweaves,
Where nor sun nor showers nor breeze
Pierce the pines and tallest trees,
Each a gem engraven;—
Girt by many an azure wave
With which the clouds and mountains pave
A lake's blue chasm.
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