The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/A Fragment: To Music
A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC
[Published in Poetical Works, 1839, 1st ed. Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley).]
Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers.5
Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers.5