Death & Dying
Fragment: Death in Life
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Death & Dying
My head is heavy, my limbs are weary,
And it is not life that makes me move.
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Codex Note
Written 1820. Published 1862.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Death in Life.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/192/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Death in Life.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/192/.
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