Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG, by CHARLES COTTON



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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.





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