I

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

I pant for the music which is divine,

      My heart in its thirst is a dying flower;

Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine,

      Loosen the notes in a silver shower;

Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain,

I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.

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