Love
O thou immortal deity
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
O thou immortal deity
Whose throne is in the depth of human thought,
I do adjure thy power and thee
By all that man may be, by all that he is not,
By all that he has been and yet must be!
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Codex Note
Written 1821. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “O thou immortal deity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/209/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “O thou immortal deity.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/209/.
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