The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts
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Forbid self-love itself to flatter, there.
How oft [ ga/ed, prophetically sad !
How oft 1 eaw her dead, while yet in smiles I In smiles she sunk her grief, to lessen mine.
She spoke nie comfort, and increased my pain.
Like jK)werful armies trenching at a town.
By slow, and silent, but resistless sap, In his pale progress gently gaining ground.
Death urged his deadly siege ; in s[)ite of art, Of all the balmy blessings nature lends To succour frail humanity. Ve stars 1 * Referring to Xight the F...ifth.
88 THE COMPLAINT. [Night VI.
(Not now first made familiar to my sight) And thou, O moon ! bear witness ; many a night He tore the pillovY from beneatli my head, Tied down my sore attention to the shock, By ceaseless depredations on a life Dearer than that he left me. Dreadful post Of observation! darker every hour !
Less dread the day that drove me to the brink.
And pointed at eternity below ; When my soul shudder'd at futurity ; When, on a moment's point, th' important die Of life and death spun doubtful, ere it fell, And turn'd op life ; my title to more woe.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Forbid self-love itself to flatter, there.
How oft [ ga/ed, prophetically sad !
How oft 1 eaw her dead, while yet in smiles I In smiles she sunk her grief, to lessen mine.
She spoke nie comfort, and increased my pain.
Like jK)werful armies trenching at a town.
By slow, and silent, but resistless sap, In his pale progress gently gaining ground.
Death urged his deadly siege ; in s[)ite of art, Of all the balmy blessings nature lends To succour frail humanity. Ve stars 1 * Referring to Xight the F...ifth.
88 THE COMPLAINT. [Night VI.
(Not now first made familiar to my sight) And thou, O moon ! bear witness ; many a night He tore the pillovY from beneatli my head, Tied down my sore attention to the shock, By ceaseless depredations on a life Dearer than that he left me. Dreadful post Of observation! darker every hour !
Less dread the day that drove me to the brink.
And pointed at eternity below ; When my soul shudder'd at futurity ; When, on a moment's point, th' important die Of life and death spun doubtful, ere it fell, And turn'd op life ; my title to more woe.
What to read after The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Young Edward to read onlineMoreLess
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