I live, I die, I burn, I drown <br />I endure at once chill and cold <br />Life is at once too soft and too hard <br />I have sore troubles mingled with joys <br /> <br />Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry <br />And in pleasure many a grief endure <br />My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged <br />All at once I dry up and grow green <br /> <br />Thus I suffer love's inconstancies <br />And when I think the pain is most intense <br />Without thinking, it is gone again. <br /> <br />Then when I feel my joys certain <br />And my hour of greatest delight arrived <br />I find my pain beginning all over once again.<br /><br />Delmira Agustini<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-live-i-die-i-burn-i-drown-2/
