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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 10, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: Needs must we suffer first to find her fair!
Last Line: She lures us to her own most gentle knees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Consolation; Pain; Suffering; Misery
First Line: Needs must we suffer first to find her fair!
Last Line: She lures us to her own most gentle knees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Consolation; Pain; Suffering; Misery
Needs must we suffer first to find her fair!
Nature was ever yet a second love!
Heart-broken and in deep bondage of despair,
Still cherishing the chains which Eros wove,
She mutely chides us wheresoe'er we rove—
How tenderly, yet by how sure degrees,
She lures us to her own most gentle knees.
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