Love
My head is wild with weeping for a grief
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
My head is wild with weeping for a grief
Which is the shadow of a gentle mind.
I walk into the air (but no relief
To seek,—or haply, if I sought, to find;
It came unsought);—to wonder that a chief
Among men’s spirits should be cold and blind.
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Codex Note
Written 1818. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “My head is wild with weeping for a grief.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/174/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “My head is wild with weeping for a grief.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/174/.
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