The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/To —. 'Yet look on me'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

TO ———

[Published in Poetical Works, 1839, 2nd ed. See Editor's Note.]

Yet look on me—take not thine eyes away,Which feed upon the love within mine own,Which is indeed but the reflected rayOf thine own beauty from my spirit thrown.Yet speak to me—thy voice is as the tone 5Of my heart's echo, and I think I hearThat thou yet lovest me; yet thou aloneLike one before a mirror, without careOf aught but thine own features, imaged there;And yet I wear out life in watching thee; 10A toil so sweet at times, and thou indeedArt kind when I am sick, and pity me...