The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/To Wordsworth
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TO WORDSWORTH
[Published with Alastor, 1816.]
Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to knowThat things depart which never may return:Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first glow,Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.These common woes I feel. One loss is mine 5Which thou too feel'st, yet I alone deplore.Thou wert as a lone star, whose light did shineOn some frail bark in winter's midnight roar:Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stoodAbove the blind and battling multitude: 10In honoured poverty thy voice did weaveSongs consecrate to truth and liberty,—Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be.