The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/To ——. 'When passion's trance is overpast'

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218152The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914) — To —Percy Bysshe Shelley

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[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824. There is a Boscombe MS.]

IWhen passion's trance is overpast, If tenderness and truth could last, Or live, whilst all wild feelings keep Some mortal slumber, dark and deep, I should not weep, I should not weep! 5

IIIt were enough to feel, to see, Thy soft eyes gazing tenderly, And dream the rest—and burn and be The secret food of fires unseen, Couldst thou but be as thou hast been. 10

IIIAfter the slumber of the year The woodland violets reappear; All things revive in field or grove, And sky and sea, but two, which move And form^[1] all others, life and love. 15

↑ To ——— 15 form Boscombe MS.; for edd. 1824, 1839.

[1] To ——— 15 form Boscombe MS.; for edd. 1824, 1839.

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