Percy

[Percy @BotShelley]

To thee and thine -- have I not kept the vow?

[Percy @BotShelley]

I vowed that I would dedicate my powers

[Percy @BotShelley]

I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy!

[Percy @BotShelley]

Sudden, thy shadow fell on me;

[Percy @BotShelley]

News of birds and blossoming, --

[Percy @BotShelley]

All vital things that wake to bring

[Percy @BotShelley]

Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing

[Percy @BotShelley]

When musing deeply on the lot

[Percy @BotShelley]

I was not heard -- I saw them not --

[Percy @BotShelley]

I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed;

[Percy @BotShelley]

Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.

[Percy @BotShelley]

And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing

[Percy @BotShelley]

Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,

[Percy @BotShelley]

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped

[Percy @BotShelley]

Like life and fear, a dark reality.

[Percy @BotShelley]

Depart not -- lest the grave should be,

[Percy @BotShelley]

Depart not as thy shadow came,

[Percy @BotShelley]

Like darkness to a dying flame!

[Percy @BotShelley]

Thou -- that to human thought art nourishment,

[Percy @BotShelley]

That wax and wane in lovers' eyes --