Fragment: "Igniculus Desiderii"

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Title:     Fragment: "Igniculus Desiderii"
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley [More Titles by Shelley]

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. This fragment is amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian. See Mr. C.D. Locock's "Examination", etc., 1903, page 63.]

To thirst and find no fill--to wail and wander
With short unsteady steps--to pause and ponder--
To feel the blood run through the veins and tingle
Where busy thought and blind sensation mingle;
To nurse the image of unfelt caresses
Till dim imagination just possesses
The half-created shadow, then all the night
Sick...

[The end]
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem: Fragment: "Igniculus Desiderii"

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