| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | On a Faded Violet | | By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | | THE ODOUR from the flower is gone | |
| Which like thy kisses breathed on me; | |
| The colour from the flower is flown | |
| Which glowed of thee and only thee! | |
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| A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form, | 5 |
| It lies on my abandoned breast, | |
| And mocks the heart which yet is warm, | |
| With cold and silent rest. | |
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| I weep,—my tears revive it not! | |
| I sigh,—it breathes no more on me; | 10 |
| Its mute and uncomplaining lot | |
| Is such as mine should be. | | | | |
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