<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534033" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Regret</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, Happiness hath left me soon behind!<br>Alas! we all pursue its steps! and when<br>We've sunk to rest within its arms entwined,<br>Like the Phoenician virgin, wake, and find<br>Ourselves alone again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, through the distant future's boundless space,<br>We seek the lost companion of our days:<br>'Return, return!' we cry, and lo, apace<br>Pleasure appears! but not to fill the place<br>Of that we mourn always.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, should unhallowed Pleasure woo me now,<br>Will to the wanton sorc'ress say, 'Begone!<br>Respect the cypress on my mournful brow,<br>Lost Happiness hath left regret--but _thou_<br>Leavest remorse, alone.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, haply lest I check the mounting fire,<br>O friends, that in your revelry appears!<br>With you I'll breathe the air which ye respire,<br>And, smiling, hide my melancholy lyre<br>When it is wet with tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each in his secret heart perchance doth own<br>Some fond regret 'neath passing smiles concealed;--<br>Sufferers alike together and alone<br>Are we; with many a grief to others known,<br>How many unrevealed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! for natural tears and simple pains,<br>For tender recollections, cherished long,<br>For guileless griefs, which no compunction stains,<br>We blush; as if we wore these earthly chains<br>Only for sport and song!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, my blest hours have fled without a trace:<br>In vain I strove their parting to delay;<br>Brightly they beamed, then left a cheerless space,<br>Like an o'erclouded smile, that in the face<br>Lightens, and fades away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</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=534033" data-title="Regret de Victor Hugo" data-description="Yes, Happiness hath left me soon behind! Alas! we all pursue its steps! and when We've sunk to rest within its arms entwined, Like the Phoenician virgin, wake, and find Ourselves alone again. Then, through the distant future's boundless space, We..."></div> </div> </div>

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