Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by CHARLES COTTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad thoughts make haste and kill me out Last Line: But half a victory. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
I SAD thoughts make haste and kill me out, I live too long in pain; 'Tis dying to be still in doubt, And Death, that ends all miseries, The chief and only favour is The wretched can obtain. II I have liv'd long enough to know That life is a disease, At least it does torment me so, That Death, at whom the happy start, I court to come, and with his dart, To give me a release. III Come, friendly Death, then strike me dead, For all this while I die, And but long dying nothing dread; Yet being with grief the one half slain, With all thy power thou wilt gain But half a victory. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD AN EPITAPH ON M.H. by CHARLES COTTON LAURA SLEEPING; ODE by CHARLES COTTON RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 2 by CHARLES COTTON |
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