@3Chariessa.@1 WHAT if Night Should betray us, and reveal To the light All the pleasures that we steal? @3Philocharis.@1 Fairest, we Safely may this fear despise; How can She See our actions who wants eyes? @3Chariessa.@1 Each dim star And the clearer lights, we know, Night's eyes are; They were blind that thought her so! @3Philocharis.@1 Those pale fires Only burn to yield a light T' our desires, And though blind, to give us sight. @3Chariessa.@1 By this shade That surrounds us might our flame Be betray'd, And the day disclose its name. @3Philocharis.@1 Dearest Fair, These dark witnesses we find Silent are; Night is dumb as well as blind. @3Chorus.@1 Then whilst these black shades conceal us, We will scorn Th' envious Morn, And the Sun that would reveal us. Our flames shall thus their mutual light betray, And night, with these joys crown'd, outshine the day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NO COMING TO GOD WITHOUT CHRIST by ROBERT HERRICK WEARINESS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE OLD CHURCHYARD OF BONCHURCH by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON ARTHUR AND ALBINA by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS IN A LETTER TO A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS MUTATION by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 10. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE SIXTH EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION |