A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley

14. June 2005, 8:05 Uhrpercy bysshe shelleyrinabeana

I’ve always liked this poem… so short, yet so despairing…

A Lament
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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!

2 comments:

  1. rachel gibbs, 10. April 2008, 17:32

    what time of mood is this poem?

     
  2. rinabeana, 12. April 2008, 18:43

    I’m not sure what you mean. It was written in 1821 and published posthumously by Mary Shelley in 1824. I don’t know what was going on in Shelley’s life at that time or even if the poem drew from his experiences. I think it’s very desperate and sad.

     

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