On Fanny Godwin

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

Her voice did quiver as we parted,

Yet knew I not that heart was broken

From which it came, and I departed

Heeding not the words then spoken.

Misery—O Misery,

This world is all too wide for thee.

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