Why Did I Laugh To-Night? 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 All The World'S Gaudy Ensigns See In Shreds; Verse, Fame, And Beauty Are Intense Indeed, But Death Intenser, Death Is Life'S High Meed.