My life is like a music-hall, Where, in the impotence of ra… - Arthur Symons

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My life is like a music-hall,
Where, in the impotence of rage,
Chained by enchantment to my stall,
I see myself upon the stage
Dance to amuse a music-hall.

Arthur Symons

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Arthur William Symons (February 28, 1865 – January 22, 1945) was a British poet and critic.

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I have loved colours, and not flowers;
Their motion, not the swallows wings;
And wasted more than half my hours
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I heard the sighing of the reeds
At noontide and at evening,
And some old dream I had forgotten
I seemed to be remembering.

I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.

My life is like a music-hall, Where, in the impotence of rage, Chained by enchantment to my stall, I see myself upon the stage Dance to amuse a music… - Arthur Symons

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