LI

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

To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned

      Its charge to each; and if the seal is set,

      Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind,

      Break it not thou! too surely shalt thou find

      Thine own well full, if thou returnest home,

      Of tears and gall. From the world's bitter wind

      Seek shelter in the shadow of the tomb.

What Adonais is, why fear we to become?

#existential dread #grief #mortality #mourning #percy bysshe shelley

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