I faint, I perish

I faint, I perish with my love! I grow
Frail as a cloud whose splendours pale
Under the evening's ever-changing glow:
I die like mist upon the gale,
And like a wave under the calm I fail.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , "Fragment: I faint, I perish with my love!"

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by George Antheil (1900-1959) , "I faint, I perish", published 1951 [SATB and keyboard], from Eight Fragments from Shelley, no. 7.

Date added to the website: 2005-01-26.

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