Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON


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First Line: When, from the heart where sorrow sits
Last Line: And droop within their silent cell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WHEN, from the heart where Sorrow sits,
Her dusky shadow mounts too high,
And o'er the changing aspect flits,
And clouds the brow, or fills the eye;
Heed not that gloom which soon shall sink:
My thoughts their dungeon know too well;
Back to my breast the wanderers shrink,
And droop within their silent cell.





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