第3章 Ode to the West Wind(1 / 3)

Percy

Bysshe

Shelley

O

wild

West

Wind,thou

breath

of

Autumn’s

being,

Thou,from

whose

unseen

presence

the

leaves

dead

Are

driven,like

ghosts

from

an

enchanter

fleeing.

Yellow,and

black,and

pale,and

hectic

red,

Pestilence-stricken

multitudes:

O

thou,

Who

chariotest

to

their

dark

wintry

bed

The

winged

seeds,where

they

lie

cold

and

low,

Each

like

a

corpse

within

its

grave,until

Thine

azure

sister

of

the

Spring

shall

blow

Her

clarion

o’er

the

dreaming

earth,and

fill

(Driving

sweet

buds

like

flocks

to

feed

in

air)

With

living

hues

and

odors

plain

and

hill;

Wild

Spirit,which

art

moving

everywhere;

Destroyer

and

preserver;hear,O

hear!

Thou

on

whose

stream,’mid

the

steep

sky’s

commotion,

Loose

clouds

like

earth’s

decaying

leaves

are

shed,

Shook

from

the

tangled

boughs

of

Heaven

and

Ocean,

Angels

of

rain

and

lightning:there

are

spread

On

the

blue

surface

of

thine

aery

surge,

Like

the

bright

hair

uplifted

from

the

head

Of

some

fierce

Maenad,even

from

the

dim

verge

Of

the

horizon

to

the

zenith’s

height,

The

locks

of

the

approaching

storm.

Thou

dirge

Of

the

dying

year,to

which

this

closing

night

Will

be

the

dome

of

a

vast

sepulchre,

Vaulted

with

all

thy

congregated

might

Of

vapours,from

whose

solid

atmosphere

Black

rain,and

fire,and

hail

will

burst:O

hear!

Thou

who

didst

waken

from

his

summer

dreams

The

blue

Mediterranean,where

he

lay,

Lulled

by

the

coil

of

his

crystalline

streams,

Beside

a

pumice

isle

in

Baiae’s

bay,

And

saw

in

sleep

old

palaces