“Time found our tired love sleeping,
And kissed away his breath;
But what should we do weeping,
Though light love sleep to death?
We have drained his lips at leisure,
Till there's not left to drain
A single sob of pleasure,
A single pulse of pain.”
"Rococo", lines 17-24.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)
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And mindless at last we died;
And deep in the rift of the Caradoc drift
We slumbered side by side.
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Till we caught our breath from the womb of death
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Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples http://www.readprint.com/work-1373/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1818), st. 5
