Delusive Hope! more transient than the ray That leads pale twilight to her dusky bed, O'er woodland glen, or breezy mountain's head, Lingering to catch the parting sigh of day. Hence with thy visionary charms, away! Nor o'er my path the flowers of fancy spread; Thy airy dreams on peaceful pillows shed, And weave for thoughtless brows, a garland gay. Farewell low valleys; dizzy cliffs, farewell! Small vagrant rills that murmur as ye flow: Dark bosomed labyrinth and thorny dell; The task be mine all pleasures to forego; To hide, where meditation loves to dwell, And feed my soul, with luxury of woe! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON PRIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 4. THE LOTTERY GIRL by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE SICKNESS by CHARLES BUKOWSKI TO A MISTRESS DYING by WILLIAM DAVENANT A WOMAN'S LOVE by JOHN MILTON HAY THE PALM TREE by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |