Love

Fragment: Wine of the Fairies

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822

From Poems of 1819

Love

I am drunk with the honey wine
Of the moon-unfolded eglantine,
Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls.
The bats, the dormice, and the moles
Sleep in the walls or under the sward
Of the desolate castle yard;
And when ’tis spilt on the summer earth
Or its fumes arise among the dew,
Their jocund dreams are full of mirth,
They gibber their joy in sleep; for few
Of the fairies bear those bowls so new!

MLA

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Wine of the Fairies.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/57/.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Wine of the Fairies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/57/.

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