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Front Page Titles (by Subject) DEATH. - Posthumous Poems
DEATH. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]Edition used:Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).
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DEATH.
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- They die—the dead return not—Misery
- Sits near an open grave and calls them over,
- A Youth with hoary hair and haggard eye—
- They are the names of kindred, friend, and lover,
- Which he so feebly called—they all are gone!
- Fond wretch, all dead, those vacant names alone,
- This most familiar scene, my pain—
- These tombs alone remain.
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- Misery, my sweetest friend—oh! weep no more!
- Thou wilt not be consoled—I wonder not!
- For I have seen thee from thy dwelling’s door
- Watch the calm sunset with them, and this spot
- Was even as bright and calm, but transitory,
- And now thy hopes are gone, thy hair is hoary;
- This most familiar scene, my pain—
- These tombs alone remain.
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