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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ILLUSIONS, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A good that never satisfies the mind
Last Line: Till wisest death make us our errors know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): The End Of Life;human Frailty
Subject(s): Death; Hallucinations & Illusions; Dead, The
First Line: A good that never satisfies the mind
Last Line: Till wisest death make us our errors know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): The End Of Life;human Frailty
Subject(s): Death; Hallucinations & Illusions; Dead, The
A GOOD that never satisfies the mind,
A beauty fading like the April flowers,
A sweet with floods of gall that runs combined,
A pleasure passing ere in thought made ours,
An honor that more fickle is than wind,
A glory at opinion's frown that lowers,
A treasury which bankrupt time devours,
A knowledge than grave ignorance more blind,
A vain delight our equals to command,
A style of greatness, in effect a dream,
A swelling thought of holding sea and land,
A servile lot, decked with a pompous name,—
Are the strange ends we toil for here below,
Till wisest death make us our errors know.
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