The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.]

I went into the deserts of dim sleep—
That world which, like an unknown wilderness,
Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep—

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FRAGMENT: ‘THE VIEWLESS AND INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE’.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.]

The viewless and invisible Consequence
Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in,
And…hovers o’er thy guilty sleep,
Unveiling every new-born deed, and thoughts
More ghastly than those deeds— _5

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FRAGMENT: A SERPENT-FACE.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.]

His face was like a snake’s—wrinkled and loose
And withered—