Death & Dying

Epitaph

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822

From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)

Death & Dying

These are two friends whose lives were undivided;
So let their memory be, now they have glided
Under the grave; let not their bones be parted,
For their two hearts in life were single-hearted.

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Written 1822. Published 1824.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Epitaph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/214/.

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