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Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley


Remembrance


1.

Swifter far than summer's flight—
Swifter far than youth's delight—
Swifter far than happy night,
Art thou come and gone—
As the earth when leaves are dead,
As the night when sleep is sped,
As the heart when joy is fled,
I am left lone, alone.

2.

The swallow summer comes again—
The owlet night resumes her reign—
But the wild-swan youth is fain
To fly with thee, false as thou.—
My heart each day desires the morrow;
Sleep itself is turned to sorrow;
Vainly would my winter borrow
Sunny leaves from any bough.

3.

Lilies for a bridal bed—
Roses for a matron's head—
Violets for a maiden dead—
Pansies let MY flowers be:
On the living grave I bear
Scatter them without a tear—
Let no friend, however dear,
Waste one hope, one fear for me.



Percy Bysshe Shelley


Percy Bysshe Shelley's other poems:
  1. Liberty
  2. To Death
  3. Letter To Maria Gisborne
  4. The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
  5. Bereavement


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Emily Brontë Remembrance ("Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee")
  • Thomas Wyatt Remembrance ("They flee from me, that sometime did me seek")
  • George Byron Remembrance ("'Tis done! - I saw it in my dreams")
  • Amelia Opie Remembrance ("How dear to me the twilight hour!")
  • Arthur Weir Remembrance ("Alone I pace the path we walked last year")
  • Charles Towne Remembrance ("Love was with me yesterday")
  • Walter De la Mare Remembrance ("The sky was like a waterdrop")

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