A LAMENT
by: Percy Bysshe Shelly
(1792-1822)
 WORLD!
O life! O 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!
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- Out of the day and night
- A joy has taken flight;
- Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
- Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
- No more -- oh, never more!
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'A Lament' is reprinted from English
Poems. Ed. Edward Chauncey Baldwin. New York: American Book
Company, 1908. |
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