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TO MARY (2) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE WORLD IS DREARY
Last Line: AND'T IS GONE, WHEN I SHOULD BE GONE TOO, MARY.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SHELLEY, MARY WOLLENSTONECRAFT GODWIN; SORROW; SADNESS;
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't is gone, when I should be gone too, Mary.



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