<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115636" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Despondency</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have gone backward in the work,<br>The labour has not sped,<br>Drowsy and dark my spirit lies,<br>Heavy and dull as lead.<br>How can I rouse my sinking soul<br>From such a lethargy?<br>How can I break these iron chains,<br>And set my spirit free?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There have been times when I have mourned,<br>In anguish o'er the past;<br>And raised my suppliant hands on high,<br>While tears fell thick and fast,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And prayed to have my sins forgiven<br>With such a fervent zeal,<br>An earnest grief - a strong desire<br>That now I cannot feel!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And vowed to trample on my sins,<br>And called on Heaven to aid<br>My spirit in her firm resolves<br>And hear the vows I made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I have felt so full of love,<br>So strong in spirit then,<br>As if my heart would never cool<br>Or wander back again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, alas! how many times<br>My feet have gone astray,<br>How oft have I forgot my God,<br>How greatly fallen away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My sins increase, my love grows cold,<br>And Hope within me dies,<br>And Faith itself is wavering now,<br>O how shall I arise!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cannot weep but I can pray,<br>Then let me not despair;<br>Lord Jesus, save me lest I die,<br>And hear a wretch's prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Bront%C3%AB">Anne Brontë</a> from <i>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115636" data-title="Despondency de Anne Brontë" data-description="I have gone backward in the work,/The labour has not sped,/Drowsy and dark my spirit lies,/Heavy and dull as lead./How can I rouse my sinking soul/From such a lethargy?/How can I break these iron chains,/And set my spirit free?/There have been tim..."></div> </div> </div>

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