The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/To ——. ‘I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden’

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216432The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — To ——. ‘I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden’Percy Bysshe Shelley

TO ——

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824.]

I
I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden,
Thou needest not fear mine;
My spirit is too deeply laden
Ever to burthen thine.

II
I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion, 5
Thou needest not fear mine;
Innocent is the heart's devotion
With which I worship thine.