A Lament
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
O world! life! 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!