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TO E*** V*** - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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TO E*** V***

  • Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me
  • Sweet basil and mignionette?
  • Embleming love and health, which never yet
  • In the same wreath might be.
  • Alas, and they are wet!
  • Is it with thy kisses or thy tears?
  • For never rain or dew
  • Such flagrance drew
  • From plant or flower—the very doubt endears
  • My sadness ever new,
  • The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed for thee.