(Fragment 2) I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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?

From Notebook 16\; cf. The Pains of Sleep.