Love
Such hope, as is the sick despair of good
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
Such hope, as is the sick despair of good,
Such fear, as is the certainty of ill,
Such doubt, as is pale Expectation’s food
Turned while she tastes to poison, when the will
Is powerless, and the spirit...
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Codex Note
Written 1820. Published 1862.
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