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To The Moon

And, like a dying lady lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp’d in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky east,
A white and shapeless mass.

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

Percy Bysshe Shelley is an English poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Romanticism, along with John Keats and George Byron. He is considered one of the best lyrical poets written in English. Among his most significant works are the poems of Adonis and the Liberated Prometheus.Shelley's eccentric life and uncompromising idealism turn him into a well-known and heavily disgraced personality while still alive. Later he became an idol for the next two or three generations of British poets, including the Victorian authors Robert Browning, Alfred Tennison, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algrennan Charles Swinbourne, and William Butler Yeats. His second wife is the famous writer Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Percy Bischon Shelley is the son of Timothy Shelley, MP from the Party of the Viggs, later the second Baroness Baronet, and his wife, Elizabeth Pillfold. He grew up in Sussex and received his initial home education. In 1802 he went to school in Brentford, and in 1804 at the Ethan College. In 1810 Shelley joined Oxford University. At that time he published his first book, the Gothic novel "Zastrozzi" (1810), and "Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire" co-authored by his sister Elizabeth. In the same year he also published the parody poem "Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson", perhaps co-authored by his fellow Thomas Jefferson Hog. In 1811 Shelley distributed the pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism", which attracted the attention of the university administration (at that time the university was religious and atheists were not allowed). His refusal to appear before school officials led to his exclusion, along with Hog, on March 25, 1811. He was given the opportunity to return after his father had intervened, provided he denied his views, but refused leads to a break with his father. On July 8, 1822, less than a month before he was thirty, Shelley set off on the sea with Don Juan, the Don Juan, for Lerici. The ship, built specifically for him in Genoa, falls into a sudden storm and sinks. On board, besides Shelly there are two more people, all die. Shelley 's body was thrown off the coast, then cremated on the beach by Viareggio. His heart was taken out of the funeral pyre and kept from Mary Shelley until her death, and the rest of her remains were buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.