Ernest Dowson
I Was Not Sorrowful (Spleen)
I was not sorrowful, I could not weep
And all my memories were put to sleep
I watched the river grow more white and strange
All day till evening I watched it change
All day till evening I watched the rain
Beat wearily upon the window pane
I was not sorrowful, but only tired
Of everything that ever I desired
Her lips, her eyes, all day became to me
The shadow of a shadow utterly
All day [mine]1 hunger for her heart became
Oblivion, until the evening came
And left me sorrowful, inclined to weep
With all my memories that could not sleep