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TIME LONG PAST by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: LIKE THE GHOST OF A DEAR FRIEND DEAD
Last Line: FROM TIME LONG PAST.
Subject(s): PAST;

I

LIKE the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is Time long past.
A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past.
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was Time long past.

II

There were sweet dreams in the night
Of Time long past.
And, was it sadness or delight,
Each day a shadow onward cast
Which made us wish it yet might last --
That Time long past.

III

There is regret, almost remorse,
For Time long past.
'T is like a child's beloved corse
A father watches, till at last
Beauty is like remembrance cast
From Time long past.



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