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Faint With Love, The Lady Of The South

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes--

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Scheme ABACD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 178
Words 38
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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