“Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark
St. 3
To a Skylark (1821)
“Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To taste whole joys.”
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
Elegies
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As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To taste whole joys." by John Donne?
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