. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... the mandrakes, and toadstools, and docks, and darnels,Rose like the dead from their ruined charnels. CONCLUSION Whether the Sensitive Plant, or thatWhich within its boughs like a spirit sat 170 The Sensitive Plant Ere its outward form had known felt this change, I cannot say. Whether that ladys gentle longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do sadness, where it left delight, I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and nothing is, but all things we the shadows
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... the mandrakes, and toadstools, and docks, and darnels,Rose like the dead from their ruined charnels. CONCLUSION Whether the Sensitive Plant, or thatWhich within its boughs like a spirit sat 170 The Sensitive Plant Ere its outward form had known felt this change, I cannot say. Whether that ladys gentle longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do sadness, where it left delight, I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and nothing is, but all things we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yetPleasant if one considers own that death itself must all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair,And all sweet shapes and odours there,In truth have never past away:*Tis we, tis ours, are changed ; not they. 171 Poems Written in 1820 For love, and beauty, and is no death nor change: their mightExceeds our organs, which endureNo light, being themselves 172
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