Lines

That time is dead for ever, child!
Drowned, frozen, dead for ever!
We look on the past
And stare aghast
At the spectres wailing, pale and ghast, 
Of hopes which thou and I beguiled
To death on life's dark river.

The stream we gazed on then rolled by;
Its waves are unreturning;
But we yet stand 
In a lone land,
Like tombs to mark the memory
Of hopes and fears, which fade and flee
In the light of life's dim morning.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , "Lines", from Posthumous Poems, published 1824

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by William Martin Yeates Hurlstone (1876-1906) , "That time is dead forever", 1900, published 1939 [voice and piano], London: Curwen
by Leo Smith (1881-1952) , "Song of the Past", published <<1910 [voice and piano], note: this song's melody was used also in the composer's setting of Shelley's "Time long past"
by Adela Tindal (1866-1929) , "A lament", published 1895 [voice and piano], from Twelve Songs, no. ?, London: Metzler; under the name Adela Maddison

by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915) , "Blazhennykh snov ushla zvezda", op. 17 no. 4, published 1947.

by S. Lustgarten , "Tot ist für immer jene Zeit" [voice and piano], Berlin: Staegemann

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