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SONNET III. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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SONNET III.

  • Alas! good friend, what profit can you see
  • In hating such an hateless thing as me?
  • There is no sport in hate where all the rage
  • Is on one side. In vain would you assuage
  • Your frowns upon an unresisting smile,
  • In which not even contempt lurks, to beguile
  • Your heart, by some faint sympathy of hate.
  • O conquer what you cannot satiate!
  • For to your passion I am far more coy
  • Than ever yet was coldest maid or boy
  • In winter noon. Of your antipathy
  • If I am the Narcissus, you are free
  • To pine into a sound with hating me.