I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish (fragment)

Portrait of Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge 1772–1834

I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish Than if 'twere Truth. It has been often so: Must I die under it? Is no one near? Will no one hear these stifled groans and wake me?

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