The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-colour'd glass
Stains the white radiance of Eternity
Until Death tramples it to fragments.—Die
If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!
Follow where all is fled!—Rome's azure sky
Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are weak
The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak

Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my Heart?
Thy hopes are gone before: from all things hеre
They have dеparted; thou shouldst now depart!
A light is pass'd from the revolving year
And man, and woman; and what still is dear
Attracts to crush, repels to make thee wither
The soft sky smiles, the low wind whispers near:
'Tis Adonais calls! oh, hasten thither
No more let Life divide what Death can join together

That Light whose smile kindles the Universe
That Beauty in which all things work and move
That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love
Which through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea
Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me
Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality
The breath whose might I have invok'd in song
Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven
Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng
Whose sails were never to the tempest given;
The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven
The soul of Adonais, like a star
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are