The Silken Tassel/Love’s Despair
Love's Despair
How can I live without thee, dearest mine?
I gave away my heart and soul to thee:
This heavy weight of dust is left to me,
Which gropes in darkness for thy light divine;
It yearns for light this earth can never give:
How can I live?
I gave away my heart and soul to thee:
This heavy weight of dust is left to me,
Which gropes in darkness for thy light divine;
It yearns for light this earth can never give:
How can I live?
How can I live without thee? No delight
Can dawn on the horizon of my life,
Where no Morn breaks her silver springs all rife
With sparkling dews, but ever in its night
Into a sea of tears she doth but dive:
How can I live?
Can dawn on the horizon of my life,
Where no Morn breaks her silver springs all rife
With sparkling dews, but ever in its night
Into a sea of tears she doth but dive:
How can I live?
How can I live without thee? Here I see
No face to feed my eyes with heavenly love:
No smile to cheer my spirits dull and move
My pallid Sorrow into rosy Glee:
In vain I sit and moan from morn to eve,
How can I live?
No face to feed my eyes with heavenly love:
No smile to cheer my spirits dull and move
My pallid Sorrow into rosy Glee:
In vain I sit and moan from morn to eve,
How can I live?
How can I live without thee? Like a bark,
Lost on the foaming sea without a sail,
Toss’d by the cruel winds, and the crew’s wail
Is heard by none, under the growing dark,
Alone, against a frowning fate I strive:
How can I live?
Lost on the foaming sea without a sail,
Toss’d by the cruel winds, and the crew’s wail
Is heard by none, under the growing dark,
Alone, against a frowning fate I strive:
How can I live?
How can I live without thee? Let them say,
The world is wide and pleasures come anew;
Its limits, ah, for me too narrow grew,
And hopeless joys for e’er have flown away;
They can no more this barren shore retrieve:
How can I live?
The world is wide and pleasures come anew;
Its limits, ah, for me too narrow grew,
And hopeless joys for e’er have flown away;
They can no more this barren shore retrieve:
How can I live?
How can I live without thee? O my love!
Wert thou not mine for these ten million years?
Did we not find our inner selves in tears,
Though placed a life apart, all hopes above?
And still this life to be? ah no, forgive!
How can I live?
Wert thou not mine for these ten million years?
Did we not find our inner selves in tears,
Though placed a life apart, all hopes above?
And still this life to be? ah no, forgive!
How can I live?