Give smiles and sighs alike to all , Serve all, but love not any; Love's dangerous and delicious thrall Hath been the tomb of many. The sweetest wine-thoughts of the heart Are turned ere long to bitter; Sad memories loom when joys depart, And gloom comes after glitter. Why pawn thy soul for one lone flower, And slight the whole bright garland; Clarissa's eyes, Lucinda's bower, Will fail thee in a far land! Love God and Virtue! Love the Sun, The Stars, the Trees, the Mountains! The only living streams that run Flow from Eternal Fountains! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FRIENDLY WOOD by PAUL VALERY THE TIGER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE SCINTILLA by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE LIFE'S MIRROR by MARY AINGE DE VERE MINIVER CHEEVY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON TO NIGHT by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |