Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DELIA: 28 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL


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First Line: Like as the spotless ermelin distressed
Last Line: Thus shades my life so long as wants endure.
Subject(s): Earth; Fortune; Life; Soul; World


Like as the spotless ermelin distressed,
Circumpass'd round with filth and loathsome mud,
Pines in her grief, imprisoned in her nest,
And cannot issue forth to seek her good:
So I, environed with a hateful want,
Look to the heav'ns, the heav'ns yield forth no grace;
I search the earth, the earth I find as scant;
I view myself, myself in woeful case.
Heav'n nor earth will not, myself cannot, work
A way through want to free my soul from care;
But I must pine, and in my pining lurk,
Lest my sad looks bewray me how I fare.
My fortune, mantled with a cloud s' obscure,
Thus shades my life so long as wants endure.





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