AH! cease''"those fruitless tears restrain, I go misfortune to defy, To smile at fate with proud disdain, To triumph''"not to die! I with fresh laurels go to crown My closing days at last, Securing all the bright renown Acquired in dangers past | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY by RICHARD CORBET ON HIS BEING [OR, HAVING] ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE by JOHN MILTON LOVE AND TIME by WALTER RALEIGH YOU MAY REMEMBER by LULU PIPER AIKEN |