Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Here you will find the Poem If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart of poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes

If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart

IF thou wilt ease thine heart
Of love, and all its smart,-
Then sleep, dear, sleep! 
And not a sorrow
Hang any tear on your eyelashes; 
Lie still and deep, 
Sad soul, until the sea-wave washes 
The rim o' the sun to-morrow,
In eastern sky,

But wilt thou cure thine heart
Of love, and all its smart,-
Then die, dear, die! 
'T is deeper, sweeter,
Than on a rose bank to lie dreaming 
With folded eye; 
And then alone, amid the beaming 
Of love's stars, thou'lt meet her
In eastern sky.