So, This be the Peotry Page, Sadly (or not so much) None of it is Written by me, But Oh Well
In Tears
In tears we saw you sinking
We watched you fade away,
You suffered much in silence
You fought so hard to stay
You faced your task with courage
But still you kept fighting
Until the very end.
God saw you getting tired
When a cure was not to be.
He put his arms around you,
And whispered 'Come with me.'
So when we saw you sleeping
So peaceful, free from pain,
We could not wish you back to suffer that again.
~Unknown
The Giaour
But first on earth as Vampyre sent
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent
Then ghastly haunt thy native place
And suck the blood of all thy race
There from thy daughter sister wife
At midnight drain the stream of life
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corpse
Thy victims ere they yet expire
Shall know the demon for their sire
As cursing thee thou cursing them
Thy flowers are withered on the stem
George Gordon and Lord Byron
Time Does Not Bring Relief
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go, -- so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his boot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Leave
I'd rather be dead now
Than breathing today.
Because we're all going to die,
Anyway.
Everything we do in life,
Will fade away to nothing.
So why not get it over with,
And end all our suffering?
When we enter the world we are innocent,
We leave our life bitterly cursed.
But, if we're not alive anymore,
How can it get any worse?
Everyone is born to die,
And will eventually cease to breathe.
But we don't have to wait that long,
We can kill ourselves and leave.
~Shaina Wright
Suicidal Speculations
What could happen if I killed myself?
What would occur if I let my soul free?
I wonder what would happen,
I wonder what would be?
What would happen if I killed myself?
If I fulfilled my bitter dreams.
If I flung open death's door,
If I tore at life's frail seams.
What would happen if I killed myself?
Would anyone really care?
But, how could anyone care?
If anyone's not there?
~Shaina Wright
From Tomorrow On
From tomorrow on I shall be sad,
From tomorrow on.
Not today
And every day no matter how bitter it may be
I shall say:
From tomorrow on I shall be sad
Not today
-Child in Nazi war camp.
Razors pair you,
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
-Dorothy Parker
Sonnets from the Portuguese
XXVIII
First time he kissed me,
He but only kissed.
The fingers of this hand
Where with I write;
And ever since it grew
more clean and white,
Slow to the world greetings,
quick with it's "oh, list,"
When the angels speak.
A ring of amethyst
I would not wear here,
plainer to my sight
Than that first kiss
The second passed in height
The first, and I sought the
forehead and half missed
Half falling on the hair.
O beyond meed!
That was the chism of love
which love's own crown,
With sanctifying sweetness,
did precede.
The third upon my lips was
folded down
In perfect, purple state, since
when, indeed
I have bee proud and said,
"My love, my own."
-Elizabeth Barret Browning
To Know There is Someone
To know there is someone
With whom you can feel
a warm understanding,
That's deep and that's real-
To know there is someone
With whom you can share
A moment of gladness,
a sorrow or care-
To know there is someone
Who cares how things go,
Can make earth a graden
a heaven below!
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