Love

The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, LII: The same continued

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840–1922

From The Poetical Works (1914), vol. I

Love

Lame, impotent conclusion to youth's dreams
Vast as all heaven ! See, what glory lies
Entangled here in these base stratagems,
What virtue done to death ! O glorious sighs,
Sublime beseechings, high cajoleries,
Fond wraths, brave ruptures, all that sometime was
Our daily bread of gods beneath the skies,
How are ye ended, in what utter loss !
Time was, time is, and time is yet to come,
Till even time itself shall have its end.
These were eternal. And behold, a tomb I
Come, let us laugh and eat and drink. God send
What all the world must need one day as we,
Speedy oblivion, rest for memory.

MLA

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, LII: The same continued.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/109/.

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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, LII: The same continued.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/109/.

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