Love
Fragment: To Italy
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
As the sunrise to the night,
As the north wind to the clouds,
As the earthquake’s fiery flight,
Ruining mountain solitudes,
Everlasting Italy,
Be those hopes and fears on thee.
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1862.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: To Italy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/186/.
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