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Faint With Love, The Lady Of The South

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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