The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Lines: 'Far, far away'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

LINES

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824.]

I

Far, far away, O ye

Halcyons of Memory,
Seek some far calmer nest
Than this abandoned breast!
No news of your false spring5
To my heart's winter bring,
Once having gone, in vain
Ye come again.

II

Vultures, who build your bowers

High in the Future's towers,10
Withered hopes on hopes are spread!
Dying joys, choked by the dead,
Will serve your beaks for prey
Many a day.