III

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

A silver spirit's form, like thee,

O Leonora, and I sit

... still watching it,

Till by the grated casement's ledge

It fades, with such a sigh, as sedge

Breathes o'er the breezy streamlet's edge.

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