Vol. 1 Iss. 1 – Death & Immortality

Scarlet Literary Magazine Issue 1 Cover

Image on cover, Sleeping Beauty, by Mary Rae

 

Music When Soft Voices Die

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)