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Read & copy the quotation
“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears.”
- Date
- 1862
Meaning of “I have no wit, no words, no tears;…”
The speaker describes a state of grief so depleted that even ordinary language and tears feel unavailable, before the poem turns explicitly toward Christian prayer.
Where does it come from?
“A Better Resurrection,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862 first edition), Devotional Pieces, printed page 137 / scan leaf 153. The poem opens “I have no wit, no words, no tears” and develops grief and numbness through Christian devotional imagery before the stanza closes in prayer. This is literary/devotional expression, not a clinical description, diagnosis or treatment recommendation.
