"O PITYING angel, pause, and say To me, new come to Paradise, How I may drive one pain away By penitence or sacrifice. From deeps below of nether Hell I hear a lost soul's bitter cry: Alas! It was through me she fell, -- What price forgetfulness may buy?" The passing angel paused in flight, Poised like fair stars which first arise, And looked on that pale suppliant white, With piercing pity in his eyes. "Ah, woe!" he said. "Thy joy and peace Cannot be bought with prayer or price. For thee that wail will never cease, Though thou hast won to Paradise!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HARP by RALPH WALDO EMERSON SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS; FLOREAT ETONA by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED THIRTY EIGHT. ADDRESSED TO MRS. H -- Y. by CHARLOTTE SMITH DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3. AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS |