Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMEMBRANCE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swifter far than summer's flight Last Line: Waste one hope, one fear for me. Variant Title(s): Lament | ||||||||
I SWIFTER far than summer's flight, Swifter far than youth's delight, Swifter far than happy night, Art thou come and gone. As the wood when leaves are shed, As the night when sleep is fled, As the heart when joy is dead, I am left lone, alone. II The swallow summer comes again, The owlet night resumes his 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. III 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AUTUMN: A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ENGLAND IN 1819 by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY EPIPSYCHIDION by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY HYMN OF PAN by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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