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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NOR ON BEDS OF FADING FLOWERS, by JOHN DALTON
Last Line: Eternal bliss for transient pain.
Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect
Last Line: Eternal bliss for transient pain.
Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect
NOR on beds of fading flowers,
Shedding soon their gaudy pride,
Nor with swains in syren bowers,
Will true pleasure long reside:
On awful virtue's hill sublime
Enthroned sits th' immortal fair;
Who wins her height must patient climb:
The steps are peril, toil, and care:
So, from the first, did Jove ordain
Eternal bliss for transient pain.
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