Love
Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
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Codex Note
Written 1817. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/170/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/170/.
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