Ernest Dowson Desire Poems

  • 1.
    They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
    Love and desire and hate:
    I think they have no portion in us after
    We pass the gate.
    ...
  • 2.
    I said: “There is an end of my desire:
    Now have I sown, and I have harvested,
    And these are ashes of an ancient fire,
    Which, verily, shall not be quickened.
    ...
  • 3.
    Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls,
    These watch the sacred lamp, these watch and pray:
    And it is one with them when evening falls,
    And one with them the cold return of day.
    ...
  • 4.
    Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
    There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
    Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
    And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
    ...
  • 5.
    When I am old,
    And sadly steal apart,
    Into the dark and cold,
    Friend of my heart!
    ...
  • 6.
    Upon the eyes, the lips, the feet,
    On all the passages of sense,
    The atoning oil is spread with sweet
    Renewal of lost innocence.
    ...
  • 7.
    Dum nos fata sinunt, oculos satiemus Amore
    Propertius

    Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad,
    ...
  • 8.
    Without, the sullen noises of the street!
    The voice of London, inarticulate,
    Hoarse and blaspheming, surges in to meet
    The silent blessing of the Immaculate.
    ...
  • 9.
    Beyond the pale of memory,
    In some mysterious dusky grove;
    A place of shadows utterly,
    Where never coos the turtle-dove,
    ...
Total 9 Desire Poems by Ernest Dowson

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