A Lament
Percy Bysshe Shelley * Track #142 On The Complete Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2
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- #1Stanza, Written At Bracknell
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- #2Stanzas.—April, 1814
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- #3To Harriet
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- #4To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
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- #5To —.’ Yet Look On Me.’
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- #6Mutability
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- #7On Death
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- #8A Summer Evening Churchyard
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- #9To —. ‘Oh! There are Spirits of The Air’
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- #10Lines: ‘The Cold Earth Slept Below’
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- #11The Sunset
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- #12Hymn To Intellectual Beauty
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- #13Fragment: Home
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- #14Marianne’s Dream
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- #15To Constantia, Singing
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- #16Stanzas 1 And 2
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- #17To Constantia
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- #18Fragment: To One Singing
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- #19A Fragment: To Music
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- #20Another Fragment: To Music
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- #21‘Mighty Eagle’
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- #22To The Lord Chancellor
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- #23To William Shelley
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- #24From The Original Draft Of The Poem To William Shelley
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- #25On Fanny Godwin
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- #26Lines: ‘That Time is Dead For Ever’
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- #27Death
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- #28Otho
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- #29Fragments Supposed To Be Parts Of Otho
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- #30‘O That A Chariot Of Cloud Were Mine’
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- #31Fragment: To A Friend Released From Prison
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- #32Fragment: Satan Broken Loose
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- #33Fragment: “Igniculus Desiderii”
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- #34Fragment: “Amor Aeternus”
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- #35Fragment: Thoughts Come And Go In Solitude
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- #36A Hate-Song
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- #37Lines To A Critic
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- #38Ozymandias
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- #39To The Nile
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- #40Passage Of The Apennines
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- #41The Past
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- #42To Mary —
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- #43On A Faded Violet
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- #44Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills
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- #45Scene From ‘Tasso’
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- #46The Two Spirits: An Allegory
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- #47Ode To Naples (Epode 1a)
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- #48Ode To Naples (Epode 2a)
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- #49Ode To Naples (Strophe 1)
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- #50Ode To Naples (Strophe 2)
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- #51Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 1a)
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- #52Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 2a)
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- #53Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 1b)
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- #54Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 2b)
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- #55Ode To Naples (Epode 1b)
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- #56Ode To Naples (Epode 2b)
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- #57Song For ‘Tasso’
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- #58Invocation To Misery
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- #59Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples
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- #60The Woodman And The Nightingale
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- #61Marenghi
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- #62Sonnet (Lift not the painted veil...)
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- #63Fragment: To Byron
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- #64Fragment: Apostrophe To Silence
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- #65Fragment: The Lake’s Margin
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- #66Fragment: ‘My Head Is Wild With Weeping’
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- #67Fragment: The Vine-Shroud
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- #68Lines Written During The Castlereagh Administration
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- #69Song To The Men Of England
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- #70Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819
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- #71Fragment: To The People Of England
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- #72National Anthem
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- #73An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty
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- #74Cancelled Stanza
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- #75An Exhortation
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- #76The Indian Serenade
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- #77Cancelled Passage
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- #78To Sophia [Miss Stacey]
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- #79To William Shelley II
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- #80To William Shelley III
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- #81To Mary Shelley
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- #82To Mary Shelley II
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- #83On The Medusa Of Leonardo Da Vinci In The Florentine Gallery
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- #84Love’s Philosophy
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- #85Fragment: ‘Follow To The Deep Wood’s Weeds’
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- #86The Birth Of Pleasure
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- #87Fragment: Love The Universe To-Day
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- #88Fragment: ‘A Gentle Story Of Two Lovers Young’
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- #89Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere
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- #90Fragment: Wedded Souls
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- #91Fragment: ‘Ye Gentle Visitations Of Calm Thought’
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- #92Fragment: Sufficient Unto The Day
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- #93Fragment: Music And Sweet Poetry
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- #94Variation Of The Song Of The Moon
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- #95The Sensitive Plant Part I
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- #96The Sensitive Plant Part II
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- #97The Sensitive Plant Part III
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- #98A Vision Of The Sea
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- #99The Cloud
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- #100To A Skylark
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- #101Ode To Liberty
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- #102Arethusa
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- #103Song Of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers On The Plain Of Enna
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- #104Hymn Of Apollo
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- #105Hymn Of Pan
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- #106The Question
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- #107Autumn: A Dirge
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- #108The Waning Moon
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- #109To The Moon
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- #110Liberty
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- #111Summer And Winter
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- #112The Tower Of Famine
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- #113An Allegory
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- #114The World’s Wanderers
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- #115Lines To A Reviewer
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- #116Fragment Of A Satire On Satire
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- #117Good-Night
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- #118Buona Notte
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- #119Orpheus
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- #120Fiordispina
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- #121Time Long Past
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- #122Fragment: The Deserts Of Dim Sleep
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- #123Fragment: ‘The Viewless And Invisible Consequence’
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- #124Fragment: A Serpent-Face
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- #125Fragment: Death In Life
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- #126Fragment: ‘Such Hope, As Is The Sick Despair Of Good’
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- #127Fragment: ‘Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was’
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- #128Fragment: Milton’s Spirit
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- #129Fragment: ‘Unrisen Splendour Of The Brightest Sun’
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- #130Fragment: Pater Omnipotens
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- #131Fragment: To The Mind Of Man
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- #132Dirge For The Year
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- #133Time
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- #134From The Arabic: An Imitation
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- #135To Emilia Viviani
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- #136The Fugitives
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- #137Song
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- #138Mutability II (The flower that smiles today...)
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- #139Lines Written On Hearing The News Of The Death Of Napoleon
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- #140Sonnet: Political Greatness
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- #141The Aziola
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- #142A Lament
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- #143Remembrance
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- #144To Edward Williams
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- #145Epithalamium
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- #146Love, Hope, Desire, And Fear
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- #147Fragments Written For Hellas
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- #148Fragment: ‘I Would Not Be A King’
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- #149Ginevra
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- #150Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
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- #151The Boat On The Serchio
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- #152Music
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- #153Sonnet To Byron
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- #154Fragment On Keats
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- #155Fragment: ‘Methought I Was A Billow In The Crowd’
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- #156To-Morrow
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- #157Fragment: A Wanderer
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- #158Fragment: Life Rounded With Sleep
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- #159Fragment: ‘I Faint, I Perish With My Love!’
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- #160Fragment: The Lady Of The South
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- #161Fragment: Zephyrus The Awakener
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- #162Fragment: Rain
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- #163Fragment: ‘When Soft Winds And Sunny Skies’
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- #164Fragment: ‘And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned’
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- #165Fragment: ‘The Rude Wind Is Singing’
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- #166Fragment: ‘Great Spirit’
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- #167Fragment: ‘O Thou Immortal Deity’
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- #168Fragment: The False Laurel And The True
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- #169Fragment: May The Limner
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- #170Fragment: Beauty’s Halo
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- #171Fragment: ‘The Death Knell Is Ringing’
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- #172Fragment: ‘I Stood Upon A Heaven-Cleaving Turret’
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- #173The Zucca
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- #174The Magnetic Lady To Her Patient
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- #175Lines: ‘When The Lamp Is Shattered’
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- #176To Jane: The Invitation
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- #177To Jane: The Recollection
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- #178The Pine Forest Of The Cascine Near Pisa
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- #179With A Guitar, To Jane
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- #180To Jane: ‘The Keen Stars Were Twinkling’
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- #181Lines Written In The Bay Of Lerici
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- #182Lines: ‘We Meet Not As We Parted’
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- #183The Isle
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- #184Fragment: To The Moon
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- #185Epitaph
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- #186Ode to the West Wind
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A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), one of the ‘Big Six’ Romantic poets, the others being Coleridge, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron and Keats.
Towards the end of Shelley’s life he suffered from depression. His marriage to his second wife, Mary, had broken down and he was attracted to the wife of hi...
A Lament Annotated
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.]
1.
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!
2.
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!