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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• The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Song Of The Old Mother by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Seven Sages by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Scholars by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of The World by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of Peace by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of Battle by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Results Of Thought by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Realists by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Pity Of Love by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Pilgrim by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Phases Of The Moon by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The People by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats

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