“Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! / I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” The extract is taken from P.B. Shelley’s poem—

Explanation

"Ode to the West Wind". These lines come from its fourth section, where the speaker, worn down by life, begs the wind to lift him like the leaf, wave and cloud it carries. Shelley wrote the ode in 1819. "The Cloud", "To a Skylark" and "Adonais" are other Shelley poems.