The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelleyby Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fragment: The False Laurel and the True

Fragment: Beauty's Halo

Fragment: May the Limner

This and the three following Fragments were edited from manuscript Shelley D1 at the Bodleian Library and published by Mr. C.D. Locock, "Examination", etc., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. They are printed here as belonging probably to the year 1821.

When May is painting with her colours gay
The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin...

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Fragment: The False Laurel and the True

Fragment: Beauty's Halo