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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BRIDES' TRAGEDY: ACT 3, SCENE 2, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must I wake again? Oh come to me Last Line: And sleep, and sleep, and sleep. | |||
FLORIBEL alone And must I wake again? Oh come to me, Thou that with dew-cold fingers softly closest The wearied eye; thou sweet, thou gentle power, Soother of woe, sole friend of the oppressed, I long to lay me on thy peaceful breast. But once I saw thee, beautiful as moonlight, Upon a baby's lips, and thou didst kiss them, Lingering and oft, (As a wild bee doth kiss a rifled flower, And clips its waist, and drops a little tear, Remorsefully enamoured of his prey;) Come so to me, sweet death, and I will wreath thee An amorous chaplet for thy paly brows; And on an odoured bank of wan white buds In thy fair arms I'll lie, and taste thy cool delicious breath, And sleep, and sleep, and sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SIBYLLA'S DIRGE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DREAM-PEDLARY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A SUBTERRANEAN CITY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES LORD ALCOHOL; SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES OUTIDANA: A DIRGE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES QUATORZAINS: 5. TO NIGHT by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES SONG OF THE STYGIAN NAIADES by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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