Shelley:   Drama: *
Charles the First 

 SCENE  VArchy. – (Sings)  (10-17 sor)

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.’

 

* The Complete Poems of  Percy Bysshe
 
   Shelley.  (The Modern Library,    New-York
  
 1994)  435. old.