Wednesday, December 7, 2011

When Thou Art Gone

TO -
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory--
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone
Love itself shall slumber on.

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