The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/The Deserts of Dim Sleep

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

FRAGMENT: THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

I went into the deserts of dim sleep—
That world which, like an unknown wilderness,
Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep—