...fair a prey, till darkness and the law Of change shall o'er his sleep the mortal curtain draw. Ah, woe is me ! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns...tone ; The ants, the bees, the swallows, re-appear; FreshleavesandflowersdeckthedeadSeason's bier; The amorous bird? now pair in every brake And build...

...in the counterpoint between the rebirth of nature and the soul's failure to revive: Ah, woe is mei Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the...swallows reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons' bier; The amorous birds now pair in every brake, And build their mossy homes in field and...

...unending, wakeless sleep.' Shelley had already taken up the Greek poet's idea in Adonais (153 ff.): Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns...swallows, reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons' bier; The amorous birds now pair in every brake . . . 'Nought we know, dies,' Shelley concludes;...

...mighty youth with morning, doth complain, Soaring and screaming round her empty nest, 150 18 Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns...swallows reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons' bier; The amorous birds now pair in every brake, And build their mossy homes in field and...

...angel soul that was its earthly guest! XVIII Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief retums with the revolving year; The airs and streams renew...swallows reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons' bier; The amorous birds now pair in every brake. And build their mossy homes in field and...

...3, sc. 4, 1. 93-5 (1 623). On her separation from her son Arthur, taken prisoner by John. 10 Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, (1792-1822) British poet. "Adonais," st. 18 (1821). Grotesque, the 1 Her skin...

...and decay, He came. 10669 Adonais She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain. 10670 Adonais government is best which governs the least, because its people disc 10671 Adonais From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos. 10672 Adonais Dust...

...head who pierced thy innocent breast, And scared the angel soul that was its earthly guest! 18 Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns...joyous tone; The ants, the bees, the swallows reappear; Lost Echo . . . woodmen hear: alluding to the story of Echo and Narcissus (Met.. 3; see ch. 3, p. 40...

...angel soul that was its earthly guest! l8 Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief remrns with the revolving year; The airs and streams renew...joyous tone: The ants, the bees, the swallows reappear; Lost Echo . . . woodmen hear: aliuding to the story of Echo and Narcissus (Met., 3; see ch. 3, p. 40...

...claim of inconsolability is a conventional elegiac gesture, expressed in Adonais by the words, "Ah woe is me! Winter is come and gone, / But grief returns with the revolving year" (11. 154-55). In an equally conventional fashion, Mary Shelley no sooner mentions loss than she contemplates...