Secretly to love & to drink, what is it? tis a dissolute day's work. I side with the open drunkards, be it as it may. Loose the knots of the heart & cumber thee no farther for the lot No geometer has yet disentangled this confusion. At the trade & changes of Time wonder not; The like enchantments keeps Destiny ready. Hold the glass discreetly, it was put together Of the skulls of Jamschid, Keikobad, & Behmen, Who teaches us where Kai was & Nimrod are gone How the throne of Jamschid fell in pieces at last See Ferhad, how he longs for the lips of Schirin Out of the flood of tears sprang tulips before him. Come I will be riotous & wasted by wine Who knows but I shall find treasures in a desolate house | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA by KAREN SWENSON THE JESTER'S SERMON by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 4. THE TIMOROUS ADVENTURER by PHILIP AYRES A CHRISTMAS CAMP ON THE SAN GABR'EL by AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR WHITE MOMENTS by KATHARINE LEE BATES |