Love
Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
There is a warm and gentle atmosphere
About the form of one we love, and thus
As in a tender mist our spirits are
Wrapped in the ... of that which is to us
The health of life’s own life—
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/180/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/180/.
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