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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)


              1  Music, when soft voices die,
              2Vibrates in the memory--
              3Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
              4Live within the sense they quicken.

              5  Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
              6Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
              7And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
              8Love itself shall slumber on.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems, ed. Mary Shelley (1824). Cf. Posthumous Poems of Shelley. Mary Shelley's Fair Copy Book, Bodleian MS. Shelley Adds. d. 9, Collated with the Holographs and the Printed Texts, ed. Irving Massey (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1969). PR 5403 M27 ROBA.
First publication date: 1824
RPO poem editor: J. D. Robins
RP edition: 2RP 2.277.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/24

Composition date: 1821
Rhyme: aabb

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