Time Long Past
Time Long Past
Original Text
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetical Works, ed. by William Michael Rossetti (London: E. Moxon, 1870). PR 5402 1870 ROBA.
1 Like the ghost of a dear friend dead
2 Is Time long past.
3A tone which is now forever fled,
4A hope which is now forever past,
5A love so sweet it could not last,
6 Was Time long past.
7 There were sweet dreams in the night
8 Of Time long past:
9And, was it sadness or delight,
10Each day a shadow onward cast
11Which made us wish it yet might last--
12 That Time long past.
13 There is regret, almost remorse,
14 For Time long past.
15'Tis like a child's belovèd corse
16A father watches, till at last
17Beauty is like remembrance, cast
18 From Time long past.
Publication Start Year
1870
RPO poem Editors
J. D. Robins
RPO Edition
2RP 2.262.
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