Arts & Sciences

Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822

From Poems of 1818

Arts & Sciences

Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou
Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged
Of one abyss, where life, and truth, and joy
Are swallowed up—yet spare me, Spirit, pity me,
Until the sounds I hear become my soul,
And it has left these faint and weary limbs,
To track along the lapses of the air
This wandering melody until it rests
Among lone mountains in some...

MLA

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/34/.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/34/.

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