Time & Brevity
Fragment: Life Rounded with Sleep
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Time & Brevity
The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb:
We begin in what we end.
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Codex Note
Written 1821. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Life Rounded with Sleep.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/200/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Life Rounded with Sleep.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/200/.
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