The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Fragment: 'Methought I was a billow in the crowd'
FRAGMENT: 'METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD'
[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]
Methought I was a billow in the crowd
Of common men, that stream without a shore,
That ocean which at once is deaf and loud;
That I, a man, stood amid many more
By a wayside . . . ' which the aspect bore 5
Of some imperial metropolis.
Where mighty shapes—pyramid, dome, and tower—
Gleamed like a pile of crags—
Of common men, that stream without a shore,
That ocean which at once is deaf and loud;
That I, a man, stood amid many more
By a wayside . . . ' which the aspect bore 5
Of some imperial metropolis.
Where mighty shapes—pyramid, dome, and tower—
Gleamed like a pile of crags—