by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
That time is dead for ever, child!
Language: English
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.
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Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Lines", appears in Posthumous Poems, first published 1824 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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 for ever", 1900, published 1939, first performed 1921 [ voice and piano ], London, J. Curwen [sung text not yet checked]
- 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" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adela Tindal (1866 - 1929), "A lament", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs, London: Metzler; under the name Adela Maddison [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by S. Lustgarten.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) , "Строки", written 1817 ; composed by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Verše (Shelley 1)"
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This text was added to the website: 2009-10-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 81