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THE PAST. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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THE 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? O 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.