Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Lament

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!

1. Liberty
2. The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
3. The Spectral Horseman
4. Wine Of The Fairies
5. Homer's Hymn to Minerva

Denis MacCarthy A Lament ("The dream is over")

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