Arts & Sciences
A Fragment: To Music
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Arts & Sciences
Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers.
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Codex Note
Written 1817. Published 1839.
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