Love
Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memory
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
And where is truth? On tombs? for such to thee
Has been my heart—and thy dead memory
Has lain from childhood, many a changeful year,
Unchangingly preserved and buried there.
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memory.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/183/.
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