The Lady of the South

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

Faint with love, the Lady of the South

      Lay in the paradise of Lebanon

Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth

      Of love was on her lips; the light was gone

Out of her eyes—

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