The Bliss Of Sorrow



NEVER dry, never dry,

 Tears that eternal love sheddeth!
How dreary, how dead doth the world still appear,
When only half-dried on the eye is the tear!

Never dry, never dry,

 Tears that unhappy love sheddeth!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 24, 2023

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Scheme A bcc A b
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 211
Words 38
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 1, 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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