When I Have Fears

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain
Before high piled books in all their chancery
Reveal like full garners their full ripened grain
When I behold upon the night's starred face
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance
And fear that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance
And when I feel fair creature of an hour
That I may never see thee more
Never relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love
Then on the shore of the wide world I stand and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do shrink