Death & Dying

Desired Death

by William Drummond of Hawthornden 1585–1649

Death & Dying

DEare Life while I do touch
These Corrall Ports of blisse,
Which still themselves do kiss,
And sweetly me invite to do as much.
All panting in my Lips,
My Heart my life doth leave,
No sense my Senses have,
And inward Powers do find a … Ecclipse:
This Death so heavenly well
Doth so me please, that I
Would never longer seeke in sense to dwell,
If that even thus I only could but dye.

MLA

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “Desired Death.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/134/.

Chicago

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “Desired Death.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/134/.

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