Death & Dying
On Fanny Godwin
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Death & Dying
Her voice did quiver as we parted,
Yet knew I not that heart was broken
From which it came, and I departed
Heeding not the words then spoken.
Misery—O Misery,
This world is all too wide for thee.
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Codex Note
Written 1817.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “On Fanny Godwin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/168/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “On Fanny Godwin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/168/.
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