Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Mary -

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Past
On a Faded Violet

To Mary -

Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.

O Mary dear, that you were here
With your brown eyes bright and clear.
And your sweet voice, like a bird
Singing love to its lone mate
In the ivy bower disconsolate;
Voice the sweetest ever heard!
And your brow more...
Than the ... sky
Of this azure Italy.
Mary dear, come to me soon,
I am not well whilst thou art far;
As sunset to the sphered moon,
As twilight to the western star,
Thou, beloved, art to me.
O Mary dear, that you were here;
The Castle echo whispers 'Here!'
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