Music when Soft Voices Die

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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1792 to 1822

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Music, when soft voices die,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Love itself shall slumber on.

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