Fragment: Home by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The speaker addresses home as the scene of earliest hopes and joys, saying that wronged memory makes even the least of these more bitter than home's forgotten tears.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Reflective Poetry · 32 words
First lines
Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys, / The least of which wronged Memory ever makes / Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Three lines address home directly and express the bitterness attached to remembered hopes and joys.
- Reflective Poetry — The speaker weighs remembered happiness against forgotten sorrow.
Tags
home · memory · early hopes · bitterness · poetic fragment
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Fragment: Home is listed on Textopian as a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, dated Date unknown.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Reflective Poetry
- Length: 32 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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