LEAVE me, all sweet refrains my lip hath made; Leave me, all instruments attuned for song; Leave me, all fountains pleasant meads among; Leave me, all charms of garden and of glade; Leave me all melodies the pipe hath played; Leave me, all rural feast and sportive throng; Leave me, all flocks the reed beguiles along; Leave me, all shepherds happy in the shade. Sun, moon and stars, for me no longer glow; Night would I have, to wail for vanished peace; Let me from pole to pole no pleasure know; Let all that I have loved and cherished cease; But see that thou forsake me not, my Woe, Who wilt, by killing, finally release. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH UPON A CHILD THAT DIED by ROBERT HERRICK HIGH FLIGHT by JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR. CHAMPAGNE, 1914-1915 by ALAN SEEGER ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 63 by PHILIP SIDNEY OPPORTUNITY by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM by KATHARINE LEE BATES AN AUTUMN TRINKET by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |