Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell <br />No God, no Demon of severe response, <br />Deigns to reply from Heaven or from Hell <br />Then to my human heart I turn at once: <br />Heart! Thou and I are here sad and alone; <br />I say, why did I laugh? O mortal pain! <br />O Darkness! Darkness! ever must I moan, <br />To question Heaven and Hell and Heart in vain. <br />Why did I laugh? I know this Being's lease, <br />My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads; <br />Yet would I on this very midnight cease, <br />And all the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds; <br />Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed, <br />But Death intenser -- Death is Life's high meed.<br /><br />John Keats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-why-did-i-laugh-tonight/
