Music, When Soft Voices Die

By Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822

Music, when soft voice die,
Vibrates in the memory -
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.