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TO — - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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    • When passion’s trance is overpast,
    • If tenderness and truth could last
    • Or live, whilst all wild feelings keep
    • Some mortal slumber, dark and deep,
    • I should not weep, I should not weep!
    • It were enough to feel, to see
    • Thy soft eyes gazing tenderly,
    • And dream the rest—and burn and be
    • The secret food of fires unseen,
    • Couldst thou but be as thou hast been.
    • After the slumber of the year
    • The woodland violets re-appear,
    • All things revive in field or grove,
    • And sky and sea, but two, which move,
    • And for all others, life and love.