Fragment of a Ghost Story

Fragment: Home.

[Published by Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 1862.]

Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys,
The least of which wronged Memory ever makes
Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears.

[Published by Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 1862.]

A shovel of his ashes took
From the hearth’s obscurest nook,
Muttering mysteries as she went.
Helen and Henry knew that Granny
Was as much afraid of Ghosts as any, _5
And so they followed hard—
But Helen clung to her brother’s arm,
And her own spasm made her shake.