Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fragment: "Igniculus Desiderii" lyrics

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. This fragment is amongst the Shelley man*scripts at the Bodleian. See Mr. C.D. Loco*k's "Examination", etc., 1903, page 63.] To thirst and find no fill—to wail and wander With short unsteady steps—to pause and ponder— To feel the blood run through the veins and tingle Where busy thought and blind sensation mingle; To nurse the image of unfelt caresses Till dim imagination just possesses The half-created shadow, then all the night Sick…