Love

Farewell to North Devon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822

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

Love

Where man’s profane and tainting hand
Nature’s primaeval loveliness has marred,
And some few souls of the high bliss debarred
Which else obey her powerful command;
...mountain piles
That load in grandeur Cambria’s emerald vales.

✦ ✦ ✦

Published 1887.

MLA

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Farewell to North Devon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/296/.

Chicago

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Farewell to North Devon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/296/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Percy Bysshe Shelley