Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell Poem by John Keats

Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell

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Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
No God, no demon of severe response
Deigns to reply from heaven or from hell
Then to my human heart I turn at once:
Heart, thou and I are here, sad and alone,
Say, why did I laugh? O mortal pain!
O darkness! darkness! Forever must I moan
To question heaven and hell and heart in vain?
Why did I laugh? I know this being's lease
My fancy to it's utmost blisses spreads
Yet would I on this very midnight cease
And all the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds
Verse, fame and beauty are intense indeed
But death intenser, death is life's high meed.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sylvaonyema Uba 14 February 2017

Verse, fame and beauty are intense indeed. Good choice of words. Sylva.

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