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LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR.

    • I arise from dreams of thee
    • In the first sweet sleep of night,
    • When the winds are breathing low,
    • And the stars are shining bright:
    • I arise from dreams of thee,
    • And a spirit in my feet
    • Has led me—who knows how?
    • To thy chamber window, sweet!
    • The wandering airs they faint
    • On the dark, the silent stream—
    • The champak odours fail
    • Like sweet thoughts in a dream;
    • The nightingale’s complaint,
    • It dies upon her heart,
    • As I must on thine,
    • Beloved as thou art!
    • O lift me from the grass!
    • I die, I faint, I fail!
    • Let thy love in kisses rain
    • On my lips and eyelids pale.
    • My cheek is cold and white, alas!
    • My heart beats loud and fast,
    • Oh! press it close to thine again,
    • Where it will break at last.