Love
Fragment: The Deserts of Dim Sleep
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
I went into the deserts of dim sleep—
That world which, like an unknown wilderness,
Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep—
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Codex Note
Written 1820. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Deserts of Dim Sleep.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/189/.
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