Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Mary Shelley ("The world is dreary")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

To Mary Shelley

Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.

The world is dreary,
And I am weary
Of wandering on without thee, Mary;
A joy was erewhile
In thy voice and thy smile,
And 'tis gone, when I should be gone too, Mary.
 
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