Past and Future. - SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE AND OTHER LOVE POEMS - 读趣百科

Past and Future.

Scattered and trampled ! Yet I find some good

Saith no grace after meat. My wine hath run

On any leaf but Heavens. Be fully done,

To gather up the bread of my repast

Who, satisfying thirst and breaking fast

Upon the fulness of the heart, at last

Clear from the darkling ground, -- content until

Indeed out of my cup, and there is none

Supernal Will ! I would not fain be one

In earths green herbs, and streams that bubble up

Dear Christ ! when thy new vintage fills my cup,

I sit with angels before better food.

Past and Future.

This hand shall shake no more, nor that wine spill.

ill not copy fair my past