To —. 'Yet look on me'

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

Yet look on me—take not thine eyes away,

Which feed upon the love within mine own,

Which is indeed but the reflected ray

Of thine own beauty from my spirit thrown.

Yet speak to me—thy voice is as the tone

Of my heart's echo, and I think I hear

That thou yet lovest me; yet thou alone

Like one before a mirror, without care

Of aught but thine own features, imaged there;

And yet I wear out life in watching thee;

A toil so sweet at times, and thou indeed

Art kind when I am sick, and pity me...

#gaze #longing #love #percy bysshe shelley

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