The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . hless boon, thy love away. 333 Early Poems And thou hast sought in starry eyesBeams that were never meant for thine, Anothers wealth : — tame sacrifice To a fond faith! still dost thou pine ? Still dost thou hope that greeting hands, Voice, looks, or lips, may answer thy demands ? Ah ! wherefore didst thou build thine hopeOn the false earths inconstancy ? Did thine own mind afford no scopeOf love, or moving thoughts to thee? That natural scenes or human smiles Could steal the power to wind thee in theirwiles. Yes, all the faithless smiles are fl
The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . hless boon, thy love away. 333 Early Poems And thou hast sought in starry eyesBeams that were never meant for thine, Anothers wealth : — tame sacrifice To a fond faith! still dost thou pine ? Still dost thou hope that greeting hands, Voice, looks, or lips, may answer thy demands ? Ah ! wherefore didst thou build thine hopeOn the false earths inconstancy ? Did thine own mind afford no scopeOf love, or moving thoughts to thee? That natural scenes or human smiles Could steal the power to wind thee in theirwiles. Yes, all the faithless smiles are fled Whose falsehood left thee broken-hearted;The glory of the moon is dead; Nights ghosts and dreams have now de-parted ;Thine own soul still is true to changed to a foul fiend through misery* 334 To Coleridge This fiend, whose ghastly presence everBeside thee like thy shadow hangs, Dream not to chase; — the mad endeavourWould scourge thee to severer pangs. Be as thou art. Thy settled fate, Dark as it is, all change would 335
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