Sentence:  And there I strove, and there I clove through the drift of icy streams; / And there I fought, and there I sought for the pay-streak of my dreams. // So twenty years, with their hopes and fears and smiles and tears and such, / Went by and left me long <WSD>bereft</WSD> of hope of the Midas touch; [...] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.