Love
Fragment: To One Singing
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
My spirit like a charmed bark doth swim
Upon the liquid waves of thy sweet singing,
Far far away into the regions dim
Of rapture—as a boat, with swift sails winging
Its way adown some many-winding river,
Speeds through dark forests o’er the waters swinging...
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Codex Note
Written 1817. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: To One Singing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/164/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: To One Singing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/164/.
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