Percy Bysshe Shelley - Song For 'Ta**o' lyrics

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.] 1. I loved—alas! our life is love; But when we cease to breathe and move I do suppose love ceases too. I thought, but not as now I do, Keen thoughts and bright of linked lore, Of all that men had thought before. And all that Nature shows, and more. 2. And still I love and still I think, But strangely, for my heart can drink The dregs of such despair, and live, And love;… And if I think, my thoughts come fast, I mix the present with the past, And each seems uglier than the last. 3. Sometimes I see before me flee A silver spirit's form, like thee, O Leonora, and I sit …still watching it, Till by the grated casement's ledge It fades, with such a sigh, as sedge Breathes o'er the breezy streamlet's edge. ***