Love
Fragment: A Tale Untold
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
One sung of thee who left the tale untold,
Like the false dawns which perish in the bursting;
Like empty cups of wrought and daedal gold,
Which mock the lips with air, when they are thirsting.
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: A Tale Untold.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/185/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: A Tale Untold.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/185/.
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