Nature
Fragment: The Vine-Shroud
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow
Beneath the autumnal sun, none taste of thee;
For thou dost shroud a ruin, and below
The rotting bones of dead antiquity.
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Codex Note
Written 1818. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Vine-Shroud.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/175/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Vine-Shroud.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/175/.
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