“O lift me from the grass! I die! I faint! I fail! Let thy lo…”

“O lift me from the grass! I die! I faint! I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas! My heart beats loud and fast: O press it to thine own again, Where it will break at last!”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Title: Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Context

"The Indian Serenade" (1819), st. 3

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

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