On Fanny Godwin
Her voice did quiver as we parted, Yet knew I not that heart was broken From which it came, and I departed Heeding not the words then spoken. Misery--O Misery, This world is all too wide for thee.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Her voice did quiver as we parted, Yet knew I not that heart was broken From which it came, and I departed Heeding not the words then spoken. Misery--O Misery, This world is all too wide for thee.
Percy Shelley wrote these six lines after learning of the suicide of Fanny Godwin, Mary Shelley’s half-sister. The speaker looks back on a parting that seemed ordinary: her voice trembled slightly, but he didn’t grasp that it came from a broken heart.
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