Nay Not To Night

Nay, not to-night;–the slow, sad rain is falling

Sorrowful tears, beneath a grieving sky,

Far off a famished jackal, faintly calling,

Renders the dusk more lonely with its cry.

The mighty river rushes, sobbing, seawards,

The shadows shelter faint mysterious fears,

I turn mine eyes for consolation theewards,

And find thy lashes tremulous with tears.

If some new soul, asearch for incarnation,

Should, through our kisses, enter Life again,

It would inherit all our desolation,

All the soft sorrow of the slanting rain.

When thou desirest Love’s supreme surrender,

Come while the morning revels in the light,

Bulbuls around us, passionately tender,

Singing among the roses red and white.

Thus, if it be my sweet and sacred duty,

Subservient to the Gods’ divine decree,

To give the world again thy vivid beauty,

I should transmit it with my joy in thee.

I could not if I would, Beloved, deceive thee.

Wouldst thou not feel at once a feigned caress?

Yet, do not rise, I would not have thee leave me,

My soul needs thine to share its loneliness.

Let the dim starlight, when the low clouds sunder,

Silver the perfect outline of thy face.

Such faces had the saints; I only wonder

That thine has sought my heart for resting-place.

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Poems in English 

• Look not in my eyes, for fear poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Into My Heart an Air that Kills poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman
• Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman by Alfred Edward Houseman

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