A Lament
Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820
Public domain
From The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. Percy Bysshe Shelley. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
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--O 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--O never more!