II

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

Send the stars light, but send not love to me,

In whom love ever made

Health like a heap of embers soon to fade—

#existential melancholy #longing #mortality #percy bysshe shelley #unrequited love

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