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Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1820
Pages
Pages 2

"Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red": so the dead leaves go past, driven before the wind "like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing". Shelley wrote most of it in a wood beside the Arno, on an autumn day when a storm was gathering the rains.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Ode to the West Wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley

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