'I faint, I perish with my love'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

I faint, I perish with my love! I grow

      Frail as a cloud whose [splendours] pale

Under the evening's ever-changing glow:

      I die like mist upon the gale,

And like a wave under the calm I fail.

#death #fragility #impermanence #love #melancholy #percy bysshe shelley

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