Sit Down, Sad Soul

Barry Cornwall 1787 (Leeds, Yorkshire) – 1874 (London)



SIT down, sad soul, and count  
 The moments flying:  
Come,—tell the sweet amount  
 That ’s lost by sighing!  
How many smiles?—a score?  
Then laugh, and count no more;  
   For day is dying.  
 
Lie down, sad soul, and sleep,  
 And no more measure  
The flight of Time, nor weep
 The loss of leisure;  
But here, by this lone stream,  
Lie down with us, and dream  
   Of starry treasure.  
 
We dream: do thou the same:
 We love—for ever;  
We laugh; yet few we shame,  
 The gentle, never.  
Stay, then, till Sorrow dies;  
Then—hope and happy skies
   Are thine for ever!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 17, 2023

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Scheme ABABCCB DEDEFFE GEGEHHE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 576
Words 102
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7

Barry Cornwall

Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. more…

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