Dr Iain McGilchrist | Daily Poetry Readings #332: Two Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley ready by Dr Iain McGilchrist @DrIainMcGilchrist | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
Part 332 of a daily series of readings of his favourite poetry by Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary. Today's poems are On Fanny Godwin and Archy's Song from Charles I by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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~ On Fanny Godwin by Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Her voice did quiver as we parted,
Yet knew I not that heart was broken
From which it came, and I departed
Heeding not the words then spoken.
Misery - O Misery,
This world is all too wide for thee.

~ Archy's Song from Charles I by Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Heigho! the lark and the owl!
One flies the morning, and one lulls the night:
Only the nightingale, poor fond soul,
Sings like the fool through darkness and light.

"A widow bird sate mourning for her love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing stream below.

"There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel's sound."