@3Composed during a walk to and from the Queen's Head, Gray's Inn Lane, Holborn, and Hornsby's and Co., Cornhill.@1 Promptress of unnumber'd sighs, O snatch that circling bandage from thine eyes! O look, and smile! No common prayer Solicits, Fortune! thy propitious care! For,not a silken son of dress I clink the gilded chains of @3politesse,@1 Nor ask thy boon what time I scheme Unholy Pleasure's frail and feverish dream; Nor yet my view life's @3dazzle@1 blinds -- Pomp! -- Grandeur! Power! -- I give you to the winds! Let the little bosom cold Melt only at the sunbeam ray of gold -- My pale cheeks glow -- the big drops start -- The rebel @3Feeling@1 riots at my heart! And if in lonely durance pent, Thy poor mite mourn a brief imprisonment -- That mite at Sorrow's faintest sound Leaps from its scrip with an elastic bound! But oh! if ever song thine ear Might soothe, O haste with fost'ring hand to rear One Flower of Hope! At Love's behest, Trembling, I plac'd it in my secret breast: And thrice I've view'd the vernal gleam, Since oft mine eye, with Joy's electric beam, Illum'd it -- and its sadder hue Oft moisten'd with the Tear's ambrosial dew! Poor wither'd floweret! on its head Has dark Despair his sickly mildew shed! But thou, O Fortune! canst relume Its deaden'd tints -- and thou with hardier bloom May'st haply tinge its beauties pale, And yield the unsunn'd stranger to the western gale! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HOUSEKEEPER by CHARLES LAMB THE CITY IN THE SEA by EDGAR ALLAN POE TO MY CHILDREN: 3 by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD LOVE DISSEMBLED, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 18. AL-RAZZAK by EDWIN ARNOLD THE SHRIMP, SELS by MOSES BROWNE THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: THIRD ECLOGUE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |