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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A FRIEND (CHAFING AT ENFORCED IDLENESS FROM INTERRUPTED HEALTH), by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon may the edict lapse, that on you lays
Last Line: And life a tragedy of errors made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Sickness; Illness
First Line: Soon may the edict lapse, that on you lays
Last Line: And life a tragedy of errors made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Sickness; Illness
SOON may the edict lapse, that on you lays
This dire compulsion of infertile days,
This hardest penal toil, reluctant rest!
Meanwhile I count you eminently blest,
Happy from labours heretofore well done,
Happy in tasks auspiciously begun.
For they are blest that have not much to rue --
That have not oft mis-heard the prompter's cue,
Stammered and stumbled and the wrong parts played,
And life a Tragedy of Errors made.
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