The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Wedded Souls
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FRAGMENT: WEDDED SOULS
[Published by Dr. Garnett, Relics of Shelley, 1862.]
I am as a spirit who has dwelt
Within his heart of hearts, and I have felt
His feelings, and have thought his thoughts, and known
The inmost converse of his soul, the tone
Unheard but in the silence of his blood, 5
When all the pulses in their multitude
Image the trembling calm of summer seas.
I have unlocked the golden melodies
Of his deep soul, as with a master-key.
And loosened them and bathed myself therein— 10
Even as an eagle in a thunder-mist
Clothing his wings with lightning.
Within his heart of hearts, and I have felt
His feelings, and have thought his thoughts, and known
The inmost converse of his soul, the tone
Unheard but in the silence of his blood, 5
When all the pulses in their multitude
Image the trembling calm of summer seas.
I have unlocked the golden melodies
Of his deep soul, as with a master-key.
And loosened them and bathed myself therein— 10
Even as an eagle in a thunder-mist
Clothing his wings with lightning.