death is coming
"death is before me today:
like the recovery of a sick man,
like going forth into a garden after sickness.
death is before me today:
like the odor of myrrh,
like sitting under a sail in a good wind.
death is before me today:
like the course of a stream,
like the return of a man from the war-gallery
to his house.
Death is before me today:
like the home that aman longs to see,
after years spent as a captive.
--------taken from "the sandman", issue 8--------
"The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower.
With silent delight.
Sits and smiles on the night."
----William Blake---
"Every Night and every morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are born to Endless Night.
---William Blake---
"I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God
choose,
I shall love thee better after death."
---Elizabeth barret Browning---
The Children's Hour
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower;
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
that is known as the children's hour."
---Henry wadsworth longfellow---
"And there followed, before unconsciousness,
the
utter despair, the sense of worthlessness
of
all striving. Better we be no more
than beasts, like
the lions in the arena."
---Tanith Lee---
I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came, and made
my heart as dry as dust.
---Coleridge---
Remember me-oh! Pass not thou my grave
without one thought whose relics there recline:
The only pang my bosom dare not brave
Must be to find forgetfulness in thine.
---Byron---
My apprhensions come in crowds:
I dread the rustling of the grass;
The very shadows of the clouds
have power to shake me as they pass.
---Wordsworth---
so runs my dream: but what am i?
an infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
---Tennyson---