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Front Page Titles (by Subject) A BRIDAL SONG. - Posthumous Poems
A BRIDAL SONG. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]Edition used:Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).
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A BRIDAL SONG.
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- The golden gates of sleep unbar
- Where strength and beauty met together,
- Kindle their image like a star
- In a sea of glassy weather.
- Night, with all thy stars look down,—
- Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,—
- Never smiled the inconstant moon
- On a pair so true.
- Let eyes not see their own delight;—
- Haste, swift Hour, and thy flight
- Oft renew.
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- Fairies, sprites, and angels keep her!
- Holy stars, permit no wrong!
- And return to wake the sleeper,
- Dawn,—ere it be long.
- Oh joy! oh fear! what will be done
- In the absence of the sun!
- Come along!
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