AWAY! away! Tempt me no more, insidious Love: Thy soothing sway Long did my youthful bosom prove: At length thy treason is discern'd, At length some dear-bought caution earn'd: Away! nor hope my riper age to move. I know, I see Her merit. Needs it now be shown, Alas! to me? How often, to myself unknown, The graceful, gentle, virtuous maid Have I admired! How often said -- What joy to call a heart like hers one's own! But, flattering god, O squanderer of content and ease In thy abode Will care's rude lesson learn to please? O say, deceiver, hast thou won Proud Fortune to attend thy throne, Or placed thy friends above her stern decrees? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NAPOLEON by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE BROTHERS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TO MRS. THRALE [ON HER COMPLETING HER THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR] by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) DOLCINO TO MARGARET by CHARLES KINGSLEY DRAPIER'S HILL by JONATHAN SWIFT THE CLOUDS: SONG [OR CHORUS] OF THE CLOUDS by ARISTOPHANES PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 17. THE BESTOWER by EDWIN ARNOLD URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO LADY PENELOPE DYNHAM by WILLIAM BASSE |