Poetry & Verse
Sorrow
By Percy Bysshe ShelleySource: Percy Bysshe Shelley - PoetryDB (Public Domain)174 words
To me this world's a dreary blank, All hopes in life are gone and fled, My high strung energies are sank, And all my blissful...
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To me this world's a dreary blank, All hopes in life are gone and fled, My high strung energies are sank, And all my blissful hopes lie dead. -- The world once smiling to my view, Showed scenes of endless bliss and joy; The world I then but little knew, Ah! little knew how pleasures cloy; All then was jocund, all was gay, No thought beyond the present hour, I danced in pleasure's fading ray, Fading alas!…
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