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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

On a Faded Violet

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!

A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form,

It lies on my abandoned breast,

And mocks the heart which yet is warm,

With cold and silent rest.

I weep,—my tears revive it not!

I sigh,—it breathes no more on me;

Its mute and uncomplaining lot

Is such as mine should be.