The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson |
LINES TO A CRITIC |
The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems | ||
LINES TO A CRITIC
I
Honey from silkworms who can gather,Or silk from the yellow bee?
The grass may grow in winter weather
As soon as hate in me.
II
Hate men who cant, and men who pray,And men who rail like thee;
An equal passion to repay
They are not coy like me.
III
Or seek some slave of power and goldTo be thy dear heart's mate;
Thy love will move that bigot cold
Sooner than me, thy hate.
IV
A passion like the one I proveCannot divided be;
I hate thy want of truth and love—
How should I then hate thee?
The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems | ||