Percy Bysshe Shelley — Fragment: Methought I Was A Billow In The Crowd

[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.] 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— ***