Why do ye torture me?
by Patrick Pearse
Why are ye torturing me, O desires of my heart ?
Torturing me and paining me by day and by night?
Hunting me as a poor deer would be hunted on a hill,
A poor long-wearied deer with the hound-pack after him
There’s no ease to my paining in the loneliness of the hills,
But the cry of the hunters terrifically to be heard,
The cry of my desires haunting me without respite,—
O ravening hounds, long is your run!
No satisfying can come to my desires while I live,
For the satisfaction I desired yesterday is no satisfaction,
And the hound-pack is the greedier of the satisfaction it has got,—
And forever I shall not sleep till I sleep in the grave.
End of the poem
15 random poems
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- Into My Heart an Air that Kills poem – A. E. Housman
- Prison Song
- Юнна Мориц – Смелый гусь
- Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Набоков – Санкт-Петербург
- Федор Сологуб – Я дорогой невинной и смелою
- Clorinda And Damon poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of — by William Wordsworth
- Forgetting Someone by Yehuda Amichai
- A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Корнилов – Разговор
- Development of Indian English Poetry
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side. by Walt Whitman
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