The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Amor Aeternus
FRAGMENT: AMOR AETERNUS
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W., 1839, 1st ed.]
Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
Of the great sea of human right and wrong,
When once from our possession they must pass;
But love, though misdirected, is among
The things which are immortal, and surpass 5
All that frail stuff which will be—or which was.
Of the great sea of human right and wrong,
When once from our possession they must pass;
But love, though misdirected, is among
The things which are immortal, and surpass 5
All that frail stuff which will be—or which was.