<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358192" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Through Agony</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All night, through the eternity of night, <br>Pain was my potion though I could not feel. <br>Deep in my humbled heart you ground your heel, <br>Till I was reft of even my inner light, <br>Till reason from my mind had taken flight, <br>And all my world went whirling in a reel. <br>And all my swarthy strength turned cold like steel, <br>A passive mass beneath your puny might. <br>Last night I gave you triumph over me, <br>So I should be myself as once before, <br>I marveled at your shallow mystery, <br>And haunted hungrily your temple door. <br>I gave you sum and substance to be free, <br>Oh, you shall never triumph any more! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not fear to face the fact and say, <br>How darkly-dull my living hours have grown, <br>My wounded heart sinks heavier than stone, <br>Because I loved you longer than a day! <br>I do not shame to turn myself away <br>From beckoning flowers beautifully blown, <br>To mourn your vivid memory alone <br>In mountain fastnesses austerely gray. <br>The mists will shroud me on the utter height, <br>The salty, brimming waters of my breast <br>Will mingle with the fresh dews of the night <br>To bathe my spirit hankering to rest. <br>But after sleep I'll wake with greater might, <br>Once more to venture on the eternal quest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claude+McKay">Claude McKay</a><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=358192" data-title="Through Agony de Claude McKay" data-description="I All night, through the eternity of night, Pain was my potion though I could not feel. Deep in my humbled heart you ground your heel, Till I was reft of even my inner light, Till reason from my mind had taken flight, And all my world went ..."></div> </div> </div>

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