Testamentum Amoris
Robert Laurence Binyon 1869 – 1943
I cannot raise my eyelids up from sleep,
But I am visited with thoughts of you;
Slumber has no refreshment half so deep
As the sweet morn, that wakes my heart anew.
I cannot put away life's trivial care,
But you straightway steal on me with delight:
My purest moments are your mirror fair;
My deepest thought finds you the truth most bright.
You are the lovely regent of my mind,
The constant sky to my unresting sea;
Yet, since 'tis you that rule me, I but find
A finer freedom in such tyranny.
Were the world's anxious kingdoms govern'd so,
Lost were their wrongs, and vanish'd half their woe!
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 113 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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