Infelix

Where is the promise of my years;

Once written on my brow?

Ere errors, agonies and fears

Brought with them all that speaks in tears,

Ere I had sunk beneath my peers;

Where sleeps that promise now?

Naught lingers to redeem those hours,

Still, still to memory sweet!

The flowers that bloomed in sunny bowers

Are withered all; and Evil towers

Supreme above her sister powers

Of Sorrow and Deceit.

I look along the columned years,

And see Life’s riven fane,

Just where it fell, amid the jeers

Of scornful lips, whose mocking sneers,

For ever hiss within mine ears

To break the sleep of pain.

I can but own my life is vain

A desert void of peace;

I missed the goal I sought to gain,

I missed the measure of the strain

That lulls Fame’s fever in the brain,

And bids Earth’s tumult cease.

Myself! alas for theme so poor

A theme but rich in Fear;

I stand a wreck on Error’s shore,

A spectre not within the door,

A houseless shadow evermore,

An exile lingering here.

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• Do You Know What It’s Like by Poetry In English
• That devil of a man by Poetry In English
• Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Aplogize by Poetry In English
• Alone by Poetry In English
• About Face poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• To the Muse poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• The Twelve poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• The Stranger poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• The Faithless Shadows. poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• The Death of Grandfather poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• The Snowy Spring Is Raging Mad poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• The Scythians poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• Street Circus poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• The Snowy Spring Is Raging Mad poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• On the Field of Kulicovo poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• I Wait For You… poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок
• I Prefer the Gorgeous Freedom poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster by Александр Блок

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