Love
Fragment: The Lady of the South
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes—
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Codex Note
Written 1821. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Lady of the South.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/202/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Lady of the South.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/202/.
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