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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PAST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilt thou forget the happy hours
Last Line: That joy, once lost, is pain.
Subject(s): Past
First Line: Wilt thou forget the happy hours
Last Line: That joy, once lost, is pain.
Subject(s): Past
WILT thou forget the happy hours
Which we buried in Love's sweet bowers,
Heaping over their corpses cold
Blossoms and leaves instead of mould?
Blossoms which were the joys that fell,
And leaves, the hopes that yet remain.
Forget the dead, the past? Oh, yet
There are ghosts that may take revenge for it;
Memories that make the heart a tomb,
Regrets which glide through the spirit's gloom,
And with ghastly whispers tell
That joy, once lost, is pain.
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