Poem by James Elroy Flecker

Prayer

Let me not know how sins and sorrows glide
Along the sombre city of our rage,
Or why the sons of men are heavy-eyed.
Let me not know, except from printed page,
The pain of litter love, of baffled pride,
Or sickness shadowing with a long presage.

Let me not know, since happy some have died
Quickly in youth or quietly in age,
How faint, how loud the bravest hearts have cried.

1. Narcissus
2. I Rose From Dreamless Hours
3. The Ballad Of The Student In The South
4. The Town Without A Market
5. Rioupéroux

Richard Aldington Prayer ("I am a garden of red tulips")

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