Love
The viewless and invisible Consequence
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
The viewless and invisible Consequence
Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in,
And...hovers o’er thy guilty sleep,
Unveiling every new-born deed, and thoughts
More ghastly than those deeds—
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Codex Note
Written 1820. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “The viewless and invisible Consequence.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/190/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “The viewless and invisible Consequence.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/190/.
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