When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be lyrics

Song information

Artist: Aesma Daeva
Album: Here Lies One Whose Name Was Written In Water

Lyrics

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain
Before high piled books, in charact'ry
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love! -- then on the shore

Of (this) wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame (and) nothingness (to) sink

[Lyrics by john keats (1795-1821)]

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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