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Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
No more—Oh, never more! 10

 

REMEMBRANCE

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824, where it is entitled A Lament. Three MS. copies are extant: The Trelawny MS. (Remembrance), the Harvard MS. (Song) and the Houghton MS.—the last written by Shelley on a flyleaf of a copy of Adonais.]

I
Swifter far than summer's flight—
Swifter far than youth's delight—
Swifter far than happy night,
Art thou come and gone—
As the earth when leaves are dead, 5
As the night when sleep is sped,
As the heart when joy is fled,^[1]
I am left lone, alone.

II
The swallow summer comes again—
The owlet night resumes her reign—
But the wild-swan youth is fain 11
To fly with thee, false as thou.—
My heart each day desires the morrow;^[2]
Sleep itself is turned to sorrow;
Vainly would my winter borrow 15
Sunny leaves from any bough,

III
Lilies for a bridal bed—
Roses for a matron's head—
Violets for a maiden dead—
Pansies let my flowers be:^[3] 20
On the living grave I bear
Scatter them without a tear—
Let no friend, however dear,
Waste one hope, one fear^[4] for me.

 

TO EDWARD WILLIAMS

[Published in Ascham's edition of the Poems, 1834. There is a copy amongst the Trelawny MSS.]

I
The serpent is shut out from Paradise.
The wounded deer must seek the herb no more
In which its heart-cure lies:
The widowed dove must cease to haunt a bower
Like that from which its mate with feigned sighs 5
Fled in the April horn.
I too must seldom seek again
Near happy friends a mitigated pain.

II
Of hatred I am proud,—with scorn content;
Indifference, that once hurt me, now is grown^[5] 10
Itself indifferent;
But, not to speak of love, pity alone

1. Remembrance—5-7 So edd. 1824, 1839, Trelawny MS., Harvard MS.; As the wood when leaves are shed, As the night when sleep is fled, As the heart when joy is dead Houghton MS.
2. 13 So edd. 1824, 1839, Harvard MS., Houghton MS.; My heart to-day desires to-morrow Trelawny MS.
3. 20 So edd. 1824, 1839, Harvard MS., Houghton MS.; Sadder flowers find for me Trelawny MS.
4. 24 one hope, one fear] a hope, a fear Trelawny MS.
5. To Edward Williams—10 Indifference, which once hurt me, is now grown Trelawny MS.