@3Moyst with one drop of thy blood, my dry soule@1 Shall (though she now be in extreme degree Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly,) bee Freed by that drop, from being starv'd, hard, or foule, And life, by this death abled, shall controule Death, whom thy death slue; nor shall to mee Feare of first or last death, bring miserie, If in thy little booke my name thou enroule, Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified, But made that there, of which, and for which 'twas; Nor can by other meanes be glorified. May then sinnes sleep, and deaths soone from me passe, That wak't from both, I againe risen may @3Salute the last, and everlasting day.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY MYRTLE [MIRTLE] by WILLIAM BLAKE A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO MOSCOW by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR GOLDEN HILL by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG SONG by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: COMPENSATION by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON RECOLLECTIONS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |