"Would you taste the sweets of love, Ever change and ever rove, Fly at pleasure, and away; Love's the cup of bliss and woe, Nectar if you taste and go, Poison if you stay. Would you taste the sweets of love, Never change and never rove, Fly from pleasures that betray; Love's the cup of bliss and woe, Poison if you taste and go, Nectar if you stay." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY BORDER BALLAD [OR MARCH, OR SONG], FR. THE MONASTERY by WALTER SCOTT IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE HOLY GRAIL by ALFRED TENNYSON IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 28 by ALFRED TENNYSON TO THE SAME PURPOSE by THOMAS TRAHERNE THE MOTHERLAND by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH MY FRIEND by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS |