I

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Death (1)

They die—the dead return not—Misery

Sits near an open grave and calls them over,

A Youth with hoary hair and haggard eye—

They are the names of kindred, friend and lover,

Which he so feebly calls—they all are gone—

Fond wretch, all dead! those vacant names alone,

This most familiar scene, my pain—

These tombs—alone remain.

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