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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 139, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: Is pleasure more commendable a guide?
Last Line: Who look'd to pleasure as a deathless queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Pleasure
First Line: Is pleasure more commendable a guide?
Last Line: Who look'd to pleasure as a deathless queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Pleasure
Is Pleasure more commendable a guide?
To snatch the sunbeams as they dance and rise?—
A sweet philosophy that few will chide!
The madder grows the chase, the more she fies!—
The soul looks out at intervals, and sighs
To think of what we are, and might have been,
Who look'd to Pleasure as a deathless Queen!
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