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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH IN LIFE, by THOMAS VAUX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: How can the tree but waste and wither away
Last Line: That feels each pain and knows no joy at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of
Variant Title(s): No Pleasure Without Some Pain
Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery
First Line: How can the tree but waste and wither away
Last Line: That feels each pain and knows no joy at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of
Variant Title(s): No Pleasure Without Some Pain
Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery
How can the tree but waste and wither away
That hath not sometime comfort of the sun?
How can that flower but fade and soon decay
That always is with dark clouds over-run?
Is this a life? Nay, death you may it call,
That feels each pain and knows no joy at all.
What foodless beast can live long in good plight?
Or is it life where senses there be none?
Or what availeth eyes without their light?
Or else a tongue to him that is alone?
Is this a life? Nay, death you may it call,
That feels each pain and knows no joy at all.
Whereto serve ears if that there be no sound?
Or such a head where no device doth grow
But all of plaints, since sorrow is the ground
Whereby the heart doth pine in deadly woe?
Is this a life? Nay, death you may it call,
That feels each pain and knows no joy at all.
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