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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• Hail, Zaragoza! If With Unwet eye by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Great Men Have Been Among Us by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Goody Blake And Harry Gill by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Gipsies by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• George and Sarah Green by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• From The Italian Of Michael Angelo by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• From The Dark Chambers Of Dejection Freed by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• From The Cuckoo And The Nightingale by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Foresight by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Fidelity by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Feelings Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Extract From The Conclusion Of A Poem Composed In Anticipation Of Leaving School by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Even As A Dragon’s Eye That Feels The Stress by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Epitaphs Translated From Chiabrera by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth

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