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Won't you help support DayPoems? LagrimasBy John Hay10/8/1838-7/1/1905God send me tears! Loose the fierce band that binds my tired brain, Give me the melting heart of other years, And let me weep again! Before me pass The shapes of things inexorably true. Gone is the sparkle of transforming dew From every blade of grass. In life's high noon Aimless I stand, my promised task undone, And raise my hot eyes to the angry sun That will go down too soon. Turned into gall Are the sweet joys of childhood's sunny reign; And memory is a torture, love a chain That binds my life in thrall. And childhood's pain Could to me now the purest rapture yield; I pray for tears as in his parching field The husbandman for rain. We pray in vain! The sullen sky flings down its blaze of brass; The joys of love all scorched and withering pass; I shall not weep again. DayPoems Poem No. 1578 Comment on DayPoems? If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read. Let it all out! Comment on this poem, any poem, DayPoems, other poetry places or the art of poetry at DayPoems Feedback. Won't you help support DayPoems? Click here to learn more about how you can keep DayPoems on the Web . . . Copyright The DayPoems web site, www.daypoems.net, is copyright 2001-2005 by Timothy K. Bovee. All rights reserved. The authors of poetry and other material appearing on DayPoems retain full rights to their work. Any requests for publication in other venues must be negotiated separately with the authors. The editor of DayPoems will gladly assist in putting interested parties in contact with the authors. |
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