A Lament

Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792–1822)

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821

O world! life! time!On whose last steps I climb.Trembling at that where I had stood before;When will return the glory of your prime?No more-Oh, never more! 5

Out of the day and nightA joy has taken flight;Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,Move my faint heart with grief, but with delightNo more—Oh, never more! 10

From The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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