The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Music and Sweet Poetry

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W, 1839, 2nd ed.]

How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
Of mighty poets and to hear the while
Sweet music, which when the attention fails
Fills the dim pause———.