Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAREWELL TO THE COURT, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired Last Line: To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sorrow Stays Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired, And past return are all my dandled days; My love misled, and fancy quite retired -- Of all which passed the sorrow only stays. My lost delights, now clean from sight of land, Have left me all alone in unknown ways; My mind to woe, my life in fortune's hand -- Of all which passed the sorrow only stays. As in a country strange, without companion, I only wail the wrong of death's delays, Whose sweet spring spent, whose summer well nigh done -- Of all which passed the sorrow only stays. Whom care forewarns, ere age and winter cold, To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (1) by WALTER RALEIGH A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (2) by WALTER RALEIGH |
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