The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/A Lament
For other versions of this work, see A Lament (O world! O life! O time!).
A LAMENT
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, Posthumous Poems, 1824]
I
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
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
II
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! 10
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! 10