The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/'I faint, I perish with my love'

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

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. 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