AWAY! away! Tempt me no more, insidious Love: Thy soothing sway Long did my youthful bosom prove: At length thy treason is discern'd, At length some dear-bought caution earn'd: Away! nor hope my riper age to move. I know, I see Her merit. Needs it now be shown, Alas! to me? How often, to myself unknown, The graceful, gentle, virtuous maid Have I admired! How often said -- What joy to call a heart like hers one's own! But, flattering god, O squanderer of content and ease In thy abode Will care's rude lesson learn to please? O say, deceiver, hast thou won Proud Fortune to attend thy throne, Or placed thy friends above her stern decrees? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): MEDEA'S DREAM by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS TO ADOLPHE GAIFFE by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE THE BANKRUPT by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE FASHION by JOSEPH BEAUMONT AN IMITATION OF SPENCER by WILLIAM BLAKE MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (SECOND VERSION) by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |