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]

IO 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
IIOut 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