<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448914" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ennui</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! and oh that Spring should come again<br>Upon the soft wings of desired days,<br>And bring with her no anodyne to pain,<br>And no discernment of untroubled ways.<br>There was a time when her yet distant feet,<br>Guessed by some prescience more than half divine,<br>Gave to my listening ear such happy warning,<br>That fresh, serene, and sweet,<br>My thoughts soared up like larks into the morning,<br>From the dew-sprinkled meadows crystalline.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soared up into the heights celestial,<br>And saw the whole world like a ball of fire,<br>Fashioned to be a monster playing ball<br>For the enchantment of my young desire.<br>And yesterday they flew to this black cloud,<br>(Missing the way to those ethereal spheres.)<br>And saw the earth a vision of affright,<br>And men a sordid crowd,<br>And felt the fears and drank the bitter tears,<br>And saw the empty houses of Delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun has sunk into a moonless sea,<br>And every road leads down from Heaven to Hell,<br>The pearls are numbered on youth's rosary,<br>I have outlived the days desirable.<br>What is there left ? And how shall dead men sing<br>Unto the loosened strings of Love and Hate,<br>Or take strong hands to Beauty's ravishment ?<br>Who shall devise this thing,<br>To give high utterance to Miscontent,<br>Or make indifference articulate ?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lord+Alfred+Douglas">Lord Alfred Douglas</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=448914" data-title="Ennui de Lord Alfred Douglas" data-description="Alas! and oh that Spring should come again Upon the soft wings of desired days, And bring with her no anodyne to pain, And no discernment of untroubled ways. There was a time when her yet distant feet, Guessed by some prescience more than half div..."></div> </div> </div>

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