The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/The Vine-Shroud

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

FRAGMENT: THE VINE-SHROUD

[Published by W. M. Rossetti, 1870.]

Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glowBeneath the autumnal sun, none taste of thee; For thou dost shroud a ruin, and belowThe rotting bones of dead antiquity.