Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GO, LET ME WEEP, by THOMAS MOORE


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First Line: Go, let me weep! There's bliss in tears
Last Line: But left no trace of sweets behind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


I.

Go, let me weep! there 's bliss in tears,
When he, who sheds them, inly feels
Some lingering stain of early years
Effaced by every drop that steals.
The fruitless showers of worldly woe
Fall dark to earth, and never rise;
While tears, that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears,
When he, who sheds them, inly feels
Some lingering stain of early years
Effaced by every drop that steals.

II.

Leave me to sigh o'er hours that flew
More idly than the summer's wind,
And, while they pass'd, a fragrance threw,
But left no trace of sweets behind. --
The warmest sigh that pleasure heaves
Is cold, is faint, to those that swell
The heart, where pure repentance grieves
O'er hours of pleasure, loved too well!
Leave me to sigh o'er days that flew
More idly than the summer's wind,
And, while they pass'd, a fragrance threw,
But left no trace of sweets behind.





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