Today's emotion

is Despair

I have experienc'd

The worst, the World can wreak on me--the
worst

That can make Life indifferent, yet
disturb

With whisper'd Discontents the dying
prayer--

I have beheld the whole of all,
wherein

My Heart had any interest in this
Life,

To be disrent and torn from off my
Hopes

That nothing now is left. Why then live on
?

That Hostage, which the world had in it's
keeping

Given by me as a Pledge that I would
live--

That Hope of Her, say rather, that pure
Faith

In her fix'd Love, which held me to keep
truce

With the Tyranny of Life--is gone ah ! whither
?

What boots it to reply ? 'tis gone ! and
now

Well may I break this Pact, this League of
Blood

That ties me to myself--and break I shall !

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge