Fragment: Love's Tender Atmosphere
There is a warm and gentle atmosphere About the form of one we love, and thus As in a tender mist our spirits are Wrapped in the ... of that which is to us The health of life's own life--
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a warm and gentle atmosphere About the form of one we love, and thus As in a tender mist our spirits are Wrapped in the ... of that which is to us The health of life's own life--
In these few unfinished lines, Shelley captures the quiet, enveloping softness of being near someone deeply loved. The speaker feels a “warm and gentle atmosphere” that seems to rise from the beloved’s very form, wrapping the spirit in a tender mist.
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