The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/To William Shelley (2)
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TO WILLIAM SHELLEY
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Works, 1824. The fragment included in the Harvard MS. book.]
I
My lost William, thou in whom
Some bright spirit lived, and did
That decaying robe consume
Which its lustre faintly hid,—
Here its ashes find a tomb. 5
But beneath this pyramid
Thou art not—if a thing divine
Like thee can die, thy funeral shrine
Is thy mother's grief and mine.
My lost William, thou in whom
Some bright spirit lived, and did
That decaying robe consume
Which its lustre faintly hid,—
Here its ashes find a tomb. 5
But beneath this pyramid
Thou art not—if a thing divine
Like thee can die, thy funeral shrine
Is thy mother's grief and mine.