The Last Wish Poem by Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton

The Last Wish



SINCE all that I can ever do for thee
Is to do nothing, this my prayer must be:
That thou mayst never guess nor ever see
The all-endured this nothing-done costs me.

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Carl Schultz 18 June 2022

Although the sentiment Lytton descrbes in the poem has been experiences at some time or another by virtually everyone who's ever lived and loved, I don't think I've ever seen the sensation described anywhere else in Western Literature, and certainly never so well.

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