The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Wine of the Fairies
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FRAGMENT: WINE OF THE FAIRIES
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W, 1839, 1st ed.]
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 5
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 10
Of the fairies bear those bowls so new!
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 5
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 10
Of the fairies bear those bowls so new!