The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson |
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TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY] |
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 | The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems |  |
TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY]
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Thou art fair, and few are fairerOf the Nymphs of earth or ocean;
They are robes that fit the wearer—
Those soft limbs of thine, whose motion
Ever falls and shifts and glances
As the life within them dances.
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Thy deep eyes, a double Planet,Gaze the wisest into madness
With soft clear fire,—the winds that fan it
Are those thoughts of tender gladness
Which, like zephyrs on the billow,
Make thy gentle soul their pillow.
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If, whatever face thou paintestIn those eyes, grows pale with pleasure,
If the fainting soul is faintest
When it hears thy harp's wild measure,
Wonder not that when thou speakest
Of the weak my heart is weakest.
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As dew beneath the wind of morning,As the sea which whirlwinds waken,
As the birds at thunder's warning,
As aught mute yet deeply shaken,
As one who feels an unseen spirit
Is my heart when thine is near it.
| The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems | |