 | The collected poems of William Ellery Channing the younger, 1817-1901 |  |
THE BEGGAR'S WISH
(1843)
O spare from all thy luxury
A tear for one who may not weep!
Whose heart is like a wintry sea,
So still and cold and deep.
A tear for one who may not weep!
Whose heart is like a wintry sea,
So still and cold and deep.
Nor shed that tear till I am laid
Beneath the fresh-dug turf at rest,
And o'er my grave the elm-tree's shade
That hides the robin's nest.
Beneath the fresh-dug turf at rest,
And o'er my grave the elm-tree's shade
That hides the robin's nest.
| The collected poems of William Ellery Channing the younger, 1817-1901 | |