Love
Fragment: A Serpent-Face
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
His face was like a snake’s—wrinkled and loose
And withered—
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Codex Note
Written 1820. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: A Serpent-Face.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/191/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: A Serpent-Face.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/191/.
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