Warnings
Dublin Core
Title
Warnings
Description
BEAUTY - remember that change and decay
Will pursue in your path, as the night follows day:
PRIDE - bear in mind that your form is of clay, And will rot with the meanest that stands in your
way:
WEALTH - that you are like the rainbow's bright ray,
Unsubstantial as clouds, and more fleeting than they:
RANK - let your name be as high as it may,
That the mandate, "be dust," even you must obey:
POWER - What things are your life and your away,
Which a breath can destroy, and a murmur betray!
HAPPINESS - know that you shine like the light
Of the wandering gleam that misleads us all night:
PLEASURE - though painted all lovely and bright,
That your visits are fatal, and rapid your flight:
FRIENDSHIP - though dear to the sense and the sight,
That thou are but a flower which the wintry winds
blight:
LOVE - that thy name, if we read it aright,
Is PASSION, more fearful because of its might:
HOPE - 'tis in you their attractions unite,
But you lure us to leave us when most you invite.
Will pursue in your path, as the night follows day:
PRIDE - bear in mind that your form is of clay, And will rot with the meanest that stands in your
way:
WEALTH - that you are like the rainbow's bright ray,
Unsubstantial as clouds, and more fleeting than they:
RANK - let your name be as high as it may,
That the mandate, "be dust," even you must obey:
POWER - What things are your life and your away,
Which a breath can destroy, and a murmur betray!
HAPPINESS - know that you shine like the light
Of the wandering gleam that misleads us all night:
PLEASURE - though painted all lovely and bright,
That your visits are fatal, and rapid your flight:
FRIENDSHIP - though dear to the sense and the sight,
That thou are but a flower which the wintry winds
blight:
LOVE - that thy name, if we read it aright,
Is PASSION, more fearful because of its might:
HOPE - 'tis in you their attractions unite,
But you lure us to leave us when most you invite.
Creator
Unattributed
Source
1:9, p. 36
Date
1827.05.11
Collection
Citation
Unattributed, “Warnings,” Periodical Poets, accessed September 16, 2024, https://periodicalpoets.com/items/show/36.
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