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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

A Lament

O 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!

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!

(1821.)