The Wish

Well then; I now do plainly see

This busy world and I shall ne’er agree.

The very honey of all earthly joy

Does of all meats the soonest cloy;

And they (methinks) deserve my pity

Who for it can endure the stings,

The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings

Of this great hive, the city.

Ah, yet, ere I descend to th’ grave

May I a small house and large garden have!

And a few friends, and many books, both true,

Both wise, and both delightful too!

And since love ne’er will from me flee,

A mistress moderately fair,

And good as guardian angels are,

Only belov’d, and loving me.

O fountains! when in you shall I

Myself eas’d of unpeaceful thoughts espy?

O fields! O woods! when shall I be made

The happy tenant of your shade?

Here’s the spring-head of Pleasure’s flood:

Here’s wealthy Nature’s treasury,

Where all the riches lie that she

Has coin’d and stamp’d for good.

Pride and ambition here

Only in far-fetch’d metaphors appear;

Here nought but winds can hurtful murmurs scatter,

And nought but Echo flatter.

The gods, when they descended, hither

From heaven did always choose their way:

And therefore we may boldly say

That ’tis the way too thither.

How happy here should I

And one dear she live, and embracing die!

She who is all the world, and can exclude

In deserts solitude.

I should have then this only fear:

Lest men, when they my pleasures see,

Should hither throng to live like me,

And so make a city here.

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• Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic by Poetry In English
• Don’t know the answer by Vinko Kalinic by Poetry In English
• Dog’s love by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Dear Traffic Signal by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa by Poetry In English
• Confessions of a Software Engineer by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa by Poetry In English
• Black song about a black woman and red wine by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Birthday party blunder by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa by Poetry In English
• Beautiful Stranger by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa by Poetry In English
• Ballad about a stinking flower by Vinko Kalinic by Poetry In English
• Altar amid the sea by Vinko Kalinic by Poetry In English
• Aeneid by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Eclogue VIII by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Eclogue VI by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Eclogue IV by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Eclogue III by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Eclogue V by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Ecologue IX by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Ecologue I by Virgil by Poetae Romani
• Eclogue X by Virgil by Poetae Romani
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