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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GO, LET ME WEEP, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, let me weep! There's bliss in tears Last Line: But left no trace of sweets behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology | |||
I. Go, let me weep! there 's bliss in tears, When he, who sheds them, inly feels Some lingering stain of early years Effaced by every drop that steals. The fruitless showers of worldly woe Fall dark to earth, and never rise; While tears, that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears, When he, who sheds them, inly feels Some lingering stain of early years Effaced by every drop that steals. II. Leave me to sigh o'er hours that flew More idly than the summer's wind, And, while they pass'd, a fragrance threw, But left no trace of sweets behind. -- The warmest sigh that pleasure heaves Is cold, is faint, to those that swell The heart, where pure repentance grieves O'er hours of pleasure, loved too well! Leave me to sigh o'er days that flew More idly than the summer's wind, And, while they pass'd, a fragrance threw, But left no trace of sweets behind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A CANADIAN BOAT SONG; WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE by THOMAS MOORE |
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