I NEVER cared for Life: Life cared for me, And hence I owed it some fidelity. It now says, "Cease; at length thou hast learnt to grind Sufficient toll for an unwilling mind, And I dismiss thee -- not without regard That thou didst ask no ill-advised reward, Nor sought in me much more than thou couldst find." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHITE CASCADE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES EPITAPH ON A JACOBITE by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY FRIENDSHIP'S MYSTERY, TO MY DEAREST LUCASIA by KATHERINE PHILIPS MILLS OF DESTINY by EVA K. ANGLESBURG THE REEDS by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT ALONG SHORE by HERBERT BASHFORD |