The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley (Classic Reprint) written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley Collected Poems The Isolation of Selfish Prosperity To strive is something, yet to win is more. The crowned angels from their state declined; And traitor pride shall make the nations blind In days to come as in the days of yore. To win is something, but content is more. The brooks, the fountains, and the crystal meres Are things forbidden in the restless ears Of Care; he tastes no beauty in the shore Hung with the morning, for his dreams are sere: And, though he seat him on a throne of gold, He cannot hear the birds sing as of old; And all his earlier self is grown - a fear. His eyes are on the forward region spent: The past let fools repair, and girls regret, And first-love dreams leave dotards' eyelids wet; Such things are gone. He cares not how they went. Canker'd with self and his false Mammon-King, He boasts at large, "I am not as my race, With me men's petty loves, dreams, ends give place To high indifference; hours can never ring Love changes, matter for a neighbour's sneer, On my mail'd breast: let boys and girls go whine The shed rose leaves of passion deem'd divine. I am not of their weakness, shall I fear?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.