Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRAZED, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT


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First Line: No rest! No rest on this bleak earth for me
Last Line: There, good night, darling! Now, I fain would sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine


NO rest! no rest on this bleak earth for me;
A thousand fancies flit across my brain;
Dim phantoms of the shadowy past I see --
I know, oh God! I know I am insane.

Deep in my breast the secret I will hide --
To those who love me'twould give bitter pain:
Foes would rejoice should evil ere betide,
And'tis an awful curse to be insane.

Ho! ho! a light! I say, my wife, a light!
This heavy darkness crushes my poor heart;
And, darling, sit beside my bed to-night --
Thy kind words comfort to my soul impart.

Ah, do not start, when my deep groans you hear:
I stagger, struck with agony so fell;
See there! see there! 'tis gone; you need not fear;
You cannot see the Devil's mystic spell.

I hear a footstep! Halt! I say, who's there?
The wind, you answer; ah, I'm not insane!
You can't deceive me with your words so fair --
There! there! I hear the sound approach again.

The light! I say! I tell you I will see --
It is a thief, with murderous thought intent;
You can't prevent me -- but, ah, woe is me!
Are you, too, on some hidden mischief bent?

Forgive me, darling; I did wildly rave;
I think I am a little crazed to-night.
Stay with me, pet-wife, you are good and brave;
The spell will pass with morning's dawning bright.

Press your soft hand upon my aching head --
Weeping again? Why will you always weep?
Your eyes their brightness with the tears will shed:
There, good night, darling! now, I fain would sleep.





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