Percy Bysshe Shelley

(1792, Field Place, Sussex - 1892 golfo di La Spezia).

La poesia fu scritta nel 1821 e pubblicata in Posthumous Poems. Nello scritto il tempo irrompe come acque indomabili. Nelle profondità dei mari si cela il grande mistero.', '

Time
Un fathoamble Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality,
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
Who shall put forth on thee,
Unfathomable Sea?