In Darkness Let Me Dwell

The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies All that we wished to stay Temps and then flies What is the worlds delight? Lightning that mocks the night Brief even as bright Virtue how frail it is Friendship too rare Love, how it sells poor bliss For pr

The odor from the flower is gone, 花的香气已经散失, Which like thy kisses breathed on me; 如你的吻曾对我吐露的气息: The color from the flower is flown, 花的颜色已经消逝, Which glowed of thee, and only thee! 那因你而生的妍丽,只为你 A shriveled, lifeless, vacant form, 枯萎.空虚.了无生气, It lies on

7. SHALL I STRIVE ? Shall I strive with words to move When deeds receive not due regard? Shall I speak and neither please Nor be freely heard? Grief, alas, though all in vain, Her restless anguish must reveal. She alone my wound shall know Though she

9. FROM SILENT NIGHT From silent night, true register of moans; From saddest soul, consumed; with sins With deepest sins From heart quite rent, with sighs and heavy groans My wailing Muse her work, begins Her work begins And to the world brings tunes

8. ARISE FROM DREAMS OF THEE I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sweep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright. The nightingale's complaint, It dies upon her heart, As I must die on thine, O, beloved as

5. CEASE SORROW NOW Cease, sorrows, now, For you have done the deed, Lo, Care hath now Consumed my carcase quite. No hope is left, Nor help can stand instead, For doleful death Doth cut oft pleasure quite. Yet whilst I hear The knelling of the bell,

6. IN DARKNESS LET ME DWELL Sorrow, stay! Lend true repentant tears To a woeful wretched wight. Hence, despair with thy tormenting fears 0 do not my poor heart affright. In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be; The roof despair to bar al

4. OVERPAST That time, is dead for ever child, Drowned frozen dead, for ever We look, on the past and stare aghast spectres wailing pale, and ghast The stream. to gazed on them rolled by Its waves return not, return not And we, yes we stand in a lone