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TO MARY SHELLEY by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: MY DEAREST MARY, WHEREFORE HAST THOU GONE
Last Line: FOR THINE OWN SAKE I CANNOT FOLLOW THEE.
Subject(s): GRIEF; MOTHERS; SHELLEY, MARY WOLLENSTONECRAFT GODWIN; SORROW; SADNESS;

My dearest Mary, wherefore hast thou gone,
And left me in this dreary world alone!
Thy form is here indeed -- a lovely one --
But thou art fled, gone down the dreary road,
That leads to Sorrow's most obscure abode;
Thou sittest on the hearth of pale despair, where
For thine own sake I cannot follow thee.



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