The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/A Bridal Song
A BRIDAL SONG
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824.]
I
The golden gates of Sleep unbar
Where Strength and Beauty, met together,
Kindle their image like a star
In a sea of glassy weather!
Night, with all thy stars look down,— 5
Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,—
Never smiled the inconstant moon
On a pair so true.
Let eyes not see their own delight;—
Haste, swift Hour, and thy flight 10
Oft renew.
The golden gates of Sleep unbar
Where Strength and Beauty, met together,
Kindle their image like a star
In a sea of glassy weather!
Night, with all thy stars look down,— 5
Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,—
Never smiled the inconstant moon
On a pair so true.
Let eyes not see their own delight;—
Haste, swift Hour, and thy flight 10
Oft renew.
II
Fairies, sprites, and angels, keep her!
Holy stars, permit no wrong!
And return to wake the sleeper,
Dawn,—ere it be long! 15
O joy! O fear! what will be done
In the absence of the sun!
Come along!
Fairies, sprites, and angels, keep her!
Holy stars, permit no wrong!
And return to wake the sleeper,
Dawn,—ere it be long! 15
O joy! O fear! what will be done
In the absence of the sun!
Come along!