URNS and odours bring away!
Vapours, sighs, darken the day!
Our dole more deadly looks than dying;
Balms and gums and heavy cheers,
Sacred vials fill’d with tears,
And clamours through the wild air flying!
Come, all sad and solemn shows,
That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes!
We convent naught else but woes.
Go to your pillow and sleep, my son.Leave me alone in the passionOf this death-night.Let the mill turn with your grieving.But stay clear. Don’t fallinto the river with me.There’s no way out,no cure but death.Last night in a dream I saw an old manstanding in a garden.It was all Love.He held out his hand and…
When I consider every thing that growsHolds in perfection but a little moment.That this huge stage presenteth nought but showsWhereon the stars in secret influence comment.When I perceive that men as plants increase,Cheerèd and checked even by the self-same sky,Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,And wear their brave state out of memory;Then the…
No ship of all that under sail or steamHave gathered people to us more and moreBut Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dreamHas been her anxious convoy in to shore.
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,For they in thee a thousand errors note;But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise,Who in despite of view is pleased to dote.Nor are mine cars with thy tongue’s tune delighted,Nor tender feeling to base touches prone,Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invitedTo any…
How can I then return in happy plight,That am debarr’d the benefit of rest?When day’s oppression is not eased by night,But day by night, and night by day, oppress’d?And each, though enemies to either’s reign,Do in consent shake hands to torture me;The one by toil, the other to complainHow far I toil, still farther off…
I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of…
