Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792 - 1822)

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.

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.

Publication Start Year

1824

RPO poem Editors

J. D. Robins

RPO Edition

2RP 2.277.

Rhyme

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