No More Learning

Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. ]

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind;
Through desert woods and tracts, which seem
Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP.

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. ]

The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb:
We begin in what we end.

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FRAGMENT: 'I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE! '.

[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S. ", 1870. ]

I faint, I perish with my love! I grow
Frail as a cloud whose [splendours] pale
Under the evening's ever-changing glow:
I die like mist upon the gale,
And like a wave under the calm I fail. _5

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FRAGMENT: THE LADY OF THE SOUTH.
[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S. ", 1870. ]

Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes-- _5

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FRAGMENT: ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER.

[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S. ", 1870. ]

Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean,
Zephyr, whom to thy cloud or cave
No thought can trace! speed with thy gentle motion!

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FRAGMENT: RAIN.

[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S. ", 1870.