Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BARD'S WISH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: O! Were I laid / in the greenwood shade Last Line: That render life but a long disease! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Disease | ||||||||
I. O! WERE I laid In the greenwood shade, Beneath the covert of waving trees; Removed from woe, And the ills below, That render life but a long disease! II. No more to weep, But in soothing sleep To slumber on long ages through; My grave-turf bright With the rosy light Of eve, or the morning's silver dew! III. For all my dreams, And vision'd gleams, Are not like those of this earthly span; My spirit would stray For ever away From the noise of strife, and the haunts of man. IV. I ask no dirge The foaming surge Of the torrent will sing a lament for me; And the evening breeze, That stirs the trees, Will murmur a mournful lullaby. V. Plant notplant not Above the spot, Memorial stones for the stranger's gaze; The earth and sky Are enough, for I Have lived with Nature all my days! VI. O! were I laid In the greenwood shade, Beneath the covert of waving trees; Removed from woe, And the ills below, That render life but a long disease! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE by NORMAN DUBIE RIVER BLINDNESS (ONCHOCERCIASIS) by THOMAS LUX ANNA BULLEN, ACT 1: SHORT CURSE by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) CARPE DIEM by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON PINDARIC ODE: TO DR. SCARBOROUGH by ABRAHAM COWLEY THE SUGAR-CANE: ADVICE TO SLAVE-OWNERS by JAMES GRAINGER FOR THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL SANITARY ASSOCIAITON by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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