Music when Soft Voices Die - Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) is a famous poet from the British Romantic era. This beautiful poem “Music when Soft Voices Die” contains one of Shelley’s most famous lines and describes how love lives on after death.
Even if the music goes silent, the flowers wither and our loved ones die, we can recall the voices, the scents and the people in our memories. Read an analysis of the Poem at InterestingLiterature.
Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
