Arts & Sciences
Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Arts & Sciences
How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
Of mighty poets and to hear the while
Sweet music, which when the attention fails
Fills the dim pause—
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/182/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/182/.
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