<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399768" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The waning moon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after Percy Bysshe Shelley) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shapelessly white it spread its light<br>ailing like a old withered man<br>in the darkness of that night<br>its half a thumb’s span</div><div style="margin:10px 0">rising very slow<br>taking half steps before pausing for breath<br>it had a whimpering kind of glow<br>as if it was very near to death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">wandering in the elemental space half-insane<br>trying to find its way through a myriad of bright stars<br>as if feebleness, atrophy had rotten its fading brain<br>as if it wore a crisscross of scars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while its colour was a kind of pale<br>thinly covered by a cloud’s veil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: “The waning moon” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399768" data-title="The waning moon de Gert Strydom" data-description="(after Percy Bysshe Shelley) Shapelessly white it spread its light ailing like a old withered man in the darkness of that night its half a thumb’s span rising very slow taking half steps before pausing for breath it had a whimpering kind of g..."></div> </div> </div>

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