Prayer

You are all that is lovely and light,

Aziza whom I adore,

And, waking, after the night,

I am weary with dreams of you.

Every nerve in my heart is tense and sore

As I rise to another morning apart from you.

I dream of your luminous eyes,

Aziza whom I adore!

Of the ruffled silk of your hair,

I dream, and the dreams are lies.

But I love them, knowing no more

Will ever be mine of you

Aziza, my life’s despair.

I would burn for a thousand days,

Aziza whom I adore,

Be tortured, slain, in unheard of ways

If you pitied the pain I bore.

You pity! Your bright eyes, fastened on other things,

Are keener to sting my soul, than scorpion stings!

You are all that is lovely to me,

All that is light,

One white rose in a Desert of weariness.

I only live in the night,

The night, with its fair false dreams of you,

You and your loveliness.

Give me your love for a day,

A night, an hour:

If the wages of sin are Death

I am willing to pay.

What is my life but a breath

Of passion burning away?

Away for an unplucked flower.

O Aziza whom I adore,

Aziza my one delight,

Only one night, I will die before day,

And trouble your life no more.

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• I’ll go and be a Sodger by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Halloween by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Green Grow The Rashes by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Fragment on Sensibility by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Fragment of Song—The Night was Still by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Fragment of Song—“My Jean!” by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Fragment—Her Flwoing Locks by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• For a’ that and a’ that by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Fickle Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Fareweel To A’Our Scottish Fame by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Extempore Reply to an Invitation by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Extempore in the Court of Session by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Esteem for Chloris by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on William Muir by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on William Hood, Senior by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on “Wee Johnnie” by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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