Delusive Hope! more transient than the ray That leads pale twilight to her dusky bed, O'er woodland glen, or breezy mountain's head, Lingering to catch the parting sigh of day. Hence with thy visionary charms, away! Nor o'er my path the flowers of fancy spread; Thy airy dreams on peaceful pillows shed, And weave for thoughtless brows, a garland gay. Farewell low valleys; dizzy cliffs, farewell! Small vagrant rills that murmur as ye flow: Dark bosomed labyrinth and thorny dell; The task be mine all pleasures to forego; To hide, where meditation loves to dwell, And feed my soul, with luxury of woe! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ARABIAN SHAWL by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE DYING DECADENT by LOUIS UNTERMEYER MARY DONNELLY by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM METRICAL FEET by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE JOURNEY by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SUMMER. THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS by ALEXANDER POPE |