The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Thoughts come and go in Solitude
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FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W., 1839, 1st ed.]
My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl! 5
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl! 5