Ah, no! Ah, no! I would not go While earth and heaven are black: -- When all is wildly drear and dark, Guard, guard, O God! this vital spark! But I would go when winds are low, And distant, dreamy rills Are heard to lapse with lingering flow, Between the twilight hills: With earth, and wave, and heaven at peace, @3Then@1 let these outworn pulses cease. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: TO SLEEP by JOHN KEATS ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY: THE HYMN by JOHN MILTON THE FOOL'S ADVENTURE by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE ANYWHERE OUT OF THE WORLD by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE THE BEGINNING by RUPERT BROOKE BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 4 by ROBERT BROWNING |