Why do ye torture me?
by Patrick Pearse
Why are ye torturing me, O desires of my heart ?
Torturing me and paining me by day and by night?
Hunting me as a poor deer would be hunted on a hill,
A poor long-wearied deer with the hound-pack after him
There’s no ease to my paining in the loneliness of the hills,
But the cry of the hunters terrifically to be heard,
The cry of my desires haunting me without respite,—
O ravening hounds, long is your run!
No satisfying can come to my desires while I live,
For the satisfaction I desired yesterday is no satisfaction,
And the hound-pack is the greedier of the satisfaction it has got,—
And forever I shall not sleep till I sleep in the grave.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
- In Adoration by Sappho
- Валерий Брюсов – Еврейским девушкам
- Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] by William Wordsworth
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- Day’s End by Tu Fu
- Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
- David Cleek by Siegfried Sassoon
- Any Lifetime by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Niobe in Distress by Phillis Wheatley
- At The Gate Of The Convent poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair:
- The Dunciad: Book IV poem – Alexander Pope
- Михаил Лермонтов – Боюсь не смерти я
- Вера Павлова – Снежную бабочку-однодневку
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