![]() By a beauty akin to pain, -- By a sense of a something wanted, That never will come again. |
![]() Of the roseate mountain-height And the sweet-to-remember story Of a distant and clear delight. |
![]() Give me the ardent longings that I lack, -- The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth, The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . . |
![]() Now are hard and sharp and cold; Where's the love that through them blazed? Where's the tenderness of old? |
![]() Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part. |
![]() Hate's a word far too intense, Too alive, to speak a state Of supreme indifference. |