Fragment: The Lady of the South
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--
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--
A woman, overcome by love, rests in a lush, almost Edenic garden in Lebanon. The cedar boughs above her form a kind of natural canopy, yet she isn’t peaceful—she’s drained, faint from a love that has parched her lips and stolen the light from her eyes.
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