Percy Bysshe Shelley — Fragment: Such Hope As Is The Sick Despair Of Good

[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862.] Such hope, as is the sick despair of good, Such fear, as is the certainty of ill, Such doubt, as is pale Expectation's food Turned while she tastes to poison, when the will Is powerless, and the spirit… ***