A Fragment: To Music

[Published in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.
Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley).]



Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers.                                           _5
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ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
[Published in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.
Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley).]
No, Music, thou art not the 'food of Love.'
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.