Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)A Lament
O W
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!
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!
(1821.)