A lament

O World! O Life! O Time!
On whose last steps I climb,	 
Trembling at that where I had stood before;	 
When will return the glory of your prime?	 
No more - oh, never more!

Out of the day and night	 
A joy has taken flight:	 
Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar	 
Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight	 
No more - oh, never more!

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , "A lament", 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 John Harold Ashe (1938-) , "O world! O life!", published 1947.
by Mary Lane Bayliff , "Threnos", published 1904, from Two Songs, no. 1.
by Arthur C. Berdahl , "Threnos" [SSATB]
by Marjorie Aimee Bram , "Lament", published 1940.
by Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) , "O World", op. 32 no. 2, published 1960. [voice and piano or trombone]
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "A lament", published 1920 [voice and piano], from English Lyrics, set 12 no. 6
by Robert Still (1910-1971) , "A lament"

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

Date added to the website: 2004-05-02.

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