The Poetry Corner

Fragment: 'Methought I Was A Billow In The Crowd'.

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 Of some imperial metropolis, Where mighty shapes - pyramid, dome, and tower - Gleamed like a pile of crags -