Pensive at eve, on the @3hard@1 world I mused, And @3my poor@1 heart was sad; so at the MOON I gazed, and sighed, and sighed; for ah how soon Eve saddens into night! mine eyes perused With tearful vacancy the @3dampy@1 grass That wept and glitter'd in the @3paly@1 ray: And I @3did pause me@1, on my lonely way And @3mused me@1, on the @3wretched ones@1 that pass O'er the bleak heath of sorrow. But alas! Most of @3myself@1 I thought! when it befel, That the @3soothe@1 spirit of the @3breezy@1 wood Breath'd in mine ear: 'All this is very well, But much of ONE thing, is for NO thing good.' Oh @3my poor heart's@1 INEXPLICABLE SWELL! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OBERMANN ONCE MORE by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE SUBALTERNS by THOMAS HARDY THE SEA AND THE SKYLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE IRISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS by THOMAS MOORE CLEOPATRA by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY WINTER SLEEP by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS A COAT by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |