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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

A Lament


              1  O world! O life! O time!
              2On whose last steps I climb,
              3    Trembling at that where I had stood before;
              4When will return the glory of your prime?
              5      No more--Oh, never more!

              6  Out of the day and night
              7A joy has taken flight;
              8    Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
              9Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
            10      No more--Oh, never more!

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems, ed. Mary Shelley (1824). Cf. Posthumous Poems of Shelley. Mary Shelley's Fair Copy Book, Bodleian MS. Shelley Adds. d. 9, Collated with the Holographs and the Printed Texts, ed. Irving Massey (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1969).
First publication date: 1824
RPO poem editor: J. D. Robins
RP edition: 2RP 2.278.
Recent editing: 2:2002/5/24

Composition date: 1821
Rhyme: aabab

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