Regret And Remorse

Regret with streaming eyes doth seem alway A maiden widowed on her wedding day.

While dark Remorse, with eyes too sad for tears, A crushed, desponding Magdalene appears.

One, with a hungering heart unsatisfied, Mourns for imagined joys that were denied.

The other, pierced by recollected sin, Broods o’er the scars of pleasures that have been.