Fragments To Music
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the Spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their Mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers . . .
No, Music, thou art not the food of Love,
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.
Dated 1817.
Both published 1839.
Source Book
The Lyrics and Shorter Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Copyright 1907, reprinted 1913
Published by London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.