VI

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Gentle and good and mild thou art,

Nor can I live if thou appear

Aught but thyself, or turn thine heart

Away from me, or stoop to wear

The mask of scorn, although it be

To hide the love thou feel'st for me.

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