William Baylebridge Death Poems
- 1. Life And Death
This world is driven by two contending powers--
Love, that coerceth Heaven to dwell with dust,
And that dire pledge of Hell's self-perjured Lust--
And as we list must Heaven and Hell be ours.
... - 2. True Being
True Being
Rich hour! is not thy gift a radiant thing?
... - 3. To Winter In The Midst Of His Reign
Thou grim physician, armed with septic shears,
Thou that dissemblest even in death's repose
Earth's quiet pulse and her remedial throes,
How dull thy visage on this day appears!
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