Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green, Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice; In temperate heat where he is felt and seen; With proud people, in presence sad and wise; Set me in base or yet in high degree, In the long night or in the shortest day, In clear weather or where mists thickest be, In lusty youth or when my hairs be gray. Set me in earth, in heaven, or yet in hell; In hill, or dale, or in the foaming flood; Thrall or at large, alive whereso I dwell, Sick or in health, in ill fame or in good: Yours will I be, and with that only thought Comfort myself when that my hap be naught. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF OBERMANN by MATTHEW ARNOLD DREAM-PEDLARY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES MAY AND DEATH by ROBERT BROWNING WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT by ROBERT BURNS A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |