When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

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1. When I have fears that I may cease to be
2. Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
3. Before high pilèd books, in charactry,
4. Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
5. When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
6. Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
7. And think that I may never live to trace
8. Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
9. And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
10. That I shall never look upon thee more,
11. Never have relish in the faery power
12. Of unreflecting love;—then on the shore
13. Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
14. Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.