Melancholy + 

The rain and wind, the rain and wind, raved endlessly. + 

On me the Summer storm, and fever, and melancholy + 

Wrought magic, so that if I feared the solitude + 

Far more I feared all company: too sharp, too rude, + 

Had been the wisest or the dearest human voice. + 

What I desired I knew not, but whate’er my choice + 

Vain it must be, I knew. Yet naught did my despair + 

But sweeten the strange sweetness, while through the wild air + 

All day long I heard a distant cuckoo calling + 

And, soft as dulcimers, sounds of near water falling, + 

And, softer, and remote as if in history, + 

Rumours of what had touched my friends, my foes, or me. + 