YOUR fair looks inflame my desire: Quench it again with love! Stay, O strive not still to retire: Do not inhuman prove! If love may persuade, Love's pleasures, dear, deny not. Here is a silent grovy shade; O tarry then, and fly not! Have I seized my heavenly delight In this unhaunted grove? Time shall now her fury requite With the revenge of love. Then come, sweetest, come, My lips with kisses gracing! Here let us harbour all alone, Die, die in sweet embracing! Will you now so timely depart, And not return again? Your sight lends such life to my heart That to depart is pain. Fear yields no delay, Secureness helpeth pleasure: Then, till the time gives safer stay, O farewell, my life's treasure! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY TO A KNOWN PLACE by HAYDEN CARRUTH MY HUT; AFTER TRAN QUANG KHAI by HAYDEN CARRUTH VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPECIAL PLEADING by SIDNEY LANIER GIANT RED WOMAN by CLARENCE MAJOR DRAW THE SWORD, O REPUBLIC by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TOWARD THE GULF; DEDICATED TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |