OH say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed The heart which adores you should wish to dissever; Such Fates were to me most unkind ones indeed, -- To bear me from love and from beauty for ever. Your frowns, lovely girl, are the Fates which alone Could bid me from fond admiration refrain; By these, every hope, every wish were o'erthrown, Till smiles should restore me to rapture again. As the ivy and oak, in the forest entwined, The rage of the tempest united must weather, My love and my life were by nature design'd To flourish alike, or to perish together. Then say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed Your lover should bid you a lasting adieu; Till Fate can ordain that his bosom shall bleed, His soul, his existence, are centred in you | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ECHOES: 6 by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH MORNING DEW by ROBERT HERRICK IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE IDEAL GENERAL by ARCHILOCHUS THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 2 by WILLIAM BASSE A PRAYER FOR NORMA by NONA HATTON BROWN JULIA ALPINULA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |