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

[4] Mary Shelley edited the poems and wrote the preface to the collection.

[9] Among the composers are Charles Wood as a three-part song in 1915,[10] Frank Bridge, for mixed chorus a capella, in 1904, Eric Nelson in 1999, Canadian composer Stephen Chatman, as a part of his set "There Is Sweet Music Here," in 1993, Sir Charles Hubert Parry in 1897, Three Songs, Opus 12, Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1893,[11] Sergei Taneyev, Opus 17, No.

3, Pust' otsvuchit, in 1905, Rebecca Clarke for mixed chorus in 1907, Peter Warlock in 1911 (two versions), Liza Lehmann for voice and piano, Henry Cowell in 1922, Jack Gibbons, Opus 17, Samuel Barber, for piano and voice in 1926, Ernest Gold, Quincy Porter in 1947, Edward Bairstow, in 1929, Roger Quilter, for voice and piano, Opus 25, No.

5, in 1927, John Harbison for SATB choir and organ or harpsichord in 1966, Tobias Picker for piano in 1977,[12][13] Stephen Chatman for chorus and oboe in 1984, Geoffrey Bush for chorus, and David Diamond for voice and piano.