I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life
A quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From the source
Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples. Stanza 4.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.