The Uncollected Poems of Henry Timrod | ||
LET NOT THESE HARMLESS JOYS
Let not these harmless joys inviteThy censure, Reader; nor excite
A self-complacent mirth,
For thus he nurst no worthless love,
Which serv'd to lift his thoughts above,
Yet bind him to the earth.
The Uncollected Poems of Henry Timrod | ||