John Keats                 Why Did I Laugh Tonight? Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell:         No God, no Demon of severe response, Deigns to reply from Heaven or from Hell.         Then to my human heart I turn at once. Heart! Thou and I are here, sad and alone;         I say, why did I laugh? O mortal pain! O Darkness! Darkness! ever must I moan,         To question Heaven and Hell and Heart in vain. Why did I laugh? I know this Being's lease,         My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads; Yet would I on this very midnight cease,         And the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds; Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser-Death is Life's high meed. 1819