Poem by Ernest Christopher Dowson

Spleen

(For Arthur Symons)

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 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. 

1. To a Lady Asking Foolish Questions
2. Amor Profanus
3. Carthusians
4. On the Birth of a Friend's Child
5. Ad Manus Puellae

Thomas Eliot Spleen ("Sunday: this satisfied procession")

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