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“Wasted Love” by Algernon Charles Swinburne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (5 Apr 1837 – 10 Apr 1909)
What shall be done for sorrow
With love whose race is run?
Where help is none to borrow,
What shall be done?
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In vain his hands have spun
The web, or drawn the furrow:
No rest their toil hath won.
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His task is all gone thorough,
And fruit thereof is none:
And who dare say to-morrow
What shall be done?