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DEATH. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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DEATH.

    • 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.
    • 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.