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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792–1822

618. Music, when Soft Voices die

MUSIC, when soft voices die, 
Vibrates in the memory; 
Odours, when sweet violets sicken, 
Live within the sense they quicken. 
 
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,         5
Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed; 
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, 
Love itself shall slumber on.