The City’s moon-lit spires and myriad lamps,Like stars in a sublunar sky did glow,And fires blazed far amid the scattered camps,Like springs of flame, which burst where’er swift Earthquake stamps.
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 234