Memories
Poem
Time Long Past
Like the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is Time long past.
A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was Time long past.
There were sweet dreams in the night
Of Time long past:
And, was it sadness or delight,
Each day a shadow onward cast
Which made us wish it yet might last—
That Time long past.
There is regret, almost remorse,
For Time long past.
'Tis like a child's belovèd corse
A father watches, till at last
Beauty is like remembrance, cast
From Time long past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Read by Maite Jáuregui
Music
Memories
Van Morrison
Image
View of Vétheuil, Claude Monet
Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York