Love
To Mary Shelley
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
The world is dreary,
And I am weary
Of wandering on without thee, Mary;
A joy was erewhile
In thy voice and thy smile,
And ’tis gone, when I should be gone too, Mary.
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “To Mary Shelley.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/177/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “To Mary Shelley.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/177/.
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