Love
Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
Of the great sea of human right and wrong,
When once from our possession they must pass;
But love, though misdirected, is among
The things which are immortal, and surpass
All that frail stuff which will be—or which was.
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Codex Note
Written 1817. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Wealth and dominion fade into the mass.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/169/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Wealth and dominion fade into the mass.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/169/.
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