Aesma Daeva When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be Lyrics

When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be 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)]