Lyric Poem · Nature
The Aziola
1'Do you not hear the Aziola cry?
2Methinks she must be nigh,'
3Said Mary, as we sate
4In dusk, ere stars were lit, or candles brought;
5And I, who thought
6This Aziola was some tedious woman,
7Asked, 'Who is Aziola?' How elate
8I felt to know that it was nothing human,
9No mockery of myself to fear or hate:
10And Mary saw my soul,
11And laughed, and said, 'Disquiet yourself not;
12'Tis nothing but a little downy owl.'
13Sad Aziola! many an eventide
14Thy music I had heard
15By wood and stream, meadow and mountain-side,
16And fields and marshes wide, —
17Such as nor voice, nor lute, nor wind, nor bird,
18The soul ever stirred;
19Unlike and far sweeter than them all.
20Sad Aziola! from that moment I
21Loved thee and thy sad cry.
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“The Aziola” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/the-aziola
Quick facts
- Poem
- The Aziola
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 21 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Peace, Love
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- Shape
- 21 lines · 2 stanzas of 9–12 lines
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBThe Aziola by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
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- SHA-256 e57233aae536e5f5…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.