Time & Brevity
A Lament
From Poems of 1821
Time & Brevity
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!
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MLA
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “A Lament.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/103/.
Chicago
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “A Lament.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/103/.
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