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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/To Emilia Viviani

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216583The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — To Emilia VivianiPercy Bysshe Shelley

TO EMILIA VIVIANI

[Published, i. by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824; ii. 1 by Dr. Garnett, Relics of Shelley, 1862; ii. 2, 3 by H. Buxton Forman, P. W. of P. B. S., 1876.]

IMadonna, wherefore hast thou sent to meSweet-basil and mignonette?Embleming love and health, which never yetIn the same wreath might be.Alas, and they are wet! 5Is it with thy kisses or thy tears?For never rain or dewSuch fragrance drewFrom plant or flower—the very doubt endearsMy sadness ever new. 10The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed for thee.
IISend the stars light, but send not love to me,In whom love ever madeHealth like a heap of embers soon to fade—