The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness Ready and poised to wax or wane; A fire of pale desire in incompleteness, Tending to pleasure or to pain: --- Lo, while we gaze she rolleth on in fleetness To perfect loss or perfect gain. Half bitterness we know, we know half sweetness; The world is all on wax, on wane: When shall completeness round time'''s incompleteness, Fulfilling joy, fulfilling pain? Lo, while we ask, life rolleth on in fleetness To finished loss or finished gain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE FLIRT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE SAND-MAN by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SONNET: 129 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO R.K. by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN |