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TO MARY (1) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: O MARY DEAR, THAT YOU WERE HERE!
Last Line: THE CASTLE ECHO WHISPERS 'HERE!'
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SHELLEY, MARY WOLLENSTONECRAFT GODWIN; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
O MARY dear, that you were here!
With your brown eyes bright and clear,
And your sweet voice, like a bird
Singing love to its lone mate
In the ivy bower disconsolate;
Voice the sweetest ever heard!
And your brow more
Than the sky
Of this azure Italy.
Mary dear, come to me soon,
I am not well whilst thou art far;
As sunset to the sphered moon,
As twilight to the western star,
Thou, beloved, art to me.

O Mary dear, that you were here!
The Castle echo whispers 'Here!'



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