Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aug. 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822

 

The Sepulchre Of Memory

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fragment

And where is truth? On tombs? for such to thee
Has been my heart -- and thy dead memory
Has lain from childhood, many a changeful year,
Unchangingly preserved and buried there.

Published 1839, 1st Edition.

Source:

The Lyrics and Shorter Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Copyright 1907, reprinted 1913
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.