Go -- hang thyself: -- I will not hear, The rocks as soon shall lend an ear To naked mariners that be Left to the mercy of the Sea. Marry come up! -- Shall thy bold pride The mysteries of the Gods deride? Presumptuous fool! commit a rape On my repute, and think to 'scape! Make me a town-talk? Well! ere thou die Cupid shall vengeance take; or I. Go, get some ratsbane! -- 'twill not do, Nay, drink some aqua-fortis too: No witch shall take thy life away; Who dares say, Go, when I bid Stay? No! -----I'll prolong thy loathed breath, And make thee wish in vain for death. In vain does Tantalus espy. Fruits, he may taste but with his eye. In vain does poor Prometheus groan, And Sisyphus stop his rolling stone: Long may they sigh, long may they cry, But not control their destiny. And thou in vain from some high wall Or on thy naked sword mayst fall, In vain (to terminate thy woes) Thy hands shall knit the fatal noose: For on thy shoulders then I'll ride, And make the Earth shake with my pride. Think'st thou that I, who when I please Can kill by waxen images, Can force the Moon down from her sphere, And make departed ghosts appear, And mix love-potions! -- thinks thy vanity, I cannot deal with such a worm as thee? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I WANT TO LIVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 104. JOPAS'S SONG by THOMAS WYATT AN INVITE TO ETERNITY by JOHN CLARE AUTUMN by JESSIE ALBERT BARNEY SPRING IS NOT THE ASH by MARVIN BARRETT THE GHOST OF ABEL; A RELATION IN THE VISIONS OF JEHOVAH by WILLIAM BLAKE |