Adonaïs

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,
He hath awakened from the dream of life;
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings. -We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

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✎ Percy Bysshe Shelley  (Horsham, Sussex, England, 4 August 1792 ~ Gulf of  La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia, 8 July 1822).
◙ Artwork: William Blake.

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