Prayer

You are all that is lovely and light,

Aziza whom I adore,

And, waking, after the night,

I am weary with dreams of you.

Every nerve in my heart is tense and sore

As I rise to another morning apart from you.

I dream of your luminous eyes,

Aziza whom I adore!

Of the ruffled silk of your hair,

I dream, and the dreams are lies.

But I love them, knowing no more

Will ever be mine of you

Aziza, my life’s despair.

I would burn for a thousand days,

Aziza whom I adore,

Be tortured, slain, in unheard of ways

If you pitied the pain I bore.

You pity! Your bright eyes, fastened on other things,

Are keener to sting my soul, than scorpion stings!

You are all that is lovely to me,

All that is light,

One white rose in a Desert of weariness.

I only live in the night,

The night, with its fair false dreams of you,

You and your loveliness.

Give me your love for a day,

A night, an hour:

If the wages of sin are Death

I am willing to pay.

What is my life but a breath

Of passion burning away?

Away for an unplucked flower.

O Aziza whom I adore,

Aziza my one delight,

Only one night, I will die before day,

And trouble your life no more.

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Poems in English 

• Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• Through Liberty To Light poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• Though All The World poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The White Pall Of Peace poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Spring-Time, O The Spring–Time poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• “`The smiling slopes with olive groves bedecked” poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Silent Muse poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Season poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman “Round-Robin” poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Poet And The Muse poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of Spring poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Owl And The Lark poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Old Land And The Young Land poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• The Last Redoubt poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin
• “The lark confinèd in his cage” poem – Alfred Austin by Alfred Austin

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