Thomas Edward Brown Doubt Poems
- 1. A Morning Walk
"Lie there," I said, "my Sorrow! lie thou there!
And I will drink the lissome air,
And see if yet the heavens have gained their blue."
Then rose my Sorrow as an aged man,
... - 2. Statio Tertia
The stream is very sweet
To-day . . . Just see the swallow dart!
How fleet!
It sent a shiver to my heart.
... - 3. I Bended Unto Me A Bough Of May
I bended unto me a bough of May,
That I might see and smell:
It bore it in a sort of way,
It bore it very well.
... - 4. Old John
Old John, if I could sit with you a day
At Abram's feet upon the asphodel,
There, while the grand old patriarch dreamed away,
To you my life's whole progress I would tell;
... - 5. I Bended Unto Me A Bough
I bended unto me a bough of May,
That I might see and smell:
It bore it in a sort of way,
It bore it very well.
... - 6. Risus Dei
Methinks in Him there dwells alway
A sea of laughter very deep,
Where the leviathans leap,
And little children play,
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