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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• Robert Burns: Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s Victory: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Thanksgiving For A National Victory: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On Commissary Goldie’s Brains: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The True Loyal Natives: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Soldier’s Return: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Meg O’ The Mill : Another Version by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Meg O’ The Mill: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lovely Young Jessie: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lord Gregory: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Open The Door To Me, Oh: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Wandering Willie: Revised Version by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Wandering Willie: First Version by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Sonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday, : On hearing a Thrush sing in his Morning Walk. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Braw Lads O’ Galla Water: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On Politics: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Poortith Cauld And Restless Love: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: A Tippling Ballad: On the Duke of Brunswick’s Breaking up his Camp, and the defeat of the Austrians, by Dumourier, November 1792. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Here’s A Health To Them That’s Awa: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Duncan Gray: by Robert Burns

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