Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone, <br />The silent night's the fittest time for moan; <br />But stay this once, unto my suit give ear, <br />And tell my griefs in either hemisphere. <br />(And if the whirling of thy wheels don't drown'd) <br />The woeful accents of my doleful sound, <br />If in thy swift carrier thou canst make stay, <br />I crave this boon, this errand by the way, <br />Commend me to the man more loved than life, <br />Show him the sorrows of his widowed wife; <br />My dumpish thoughts, my groans, my brakish tears <br />My sobs, my longing hopes, my doubting fears, <br />And if he love, how can he there abide? <br />My interest's more than all the world beside. <br />He that can tell the stars or ocean sand, <br />Or all the grass that in the meads do stand, <br />The leaves in th' woods, the hail, or drops of rain, <br />Or in a corn-field number every grain, <br />Or every mote that in the sunshine hops, <br />May count my sighs, and number all my drops. <br />Tell him the countless steps that thou dost trace, <br />That once a day thy spouse thou may'st embrace; <br />And when thou canst not treat by loving mouth, <br />Thy rays afar salute her from the south. <br />But for one month I see no day (poor soul) <br />Like those far situate under the pole, <br />Which day by day long wait for thy arise, <br />O how they joy when thou dost light the skies. <br />O Phoebus, hadst thou but thus long from thine <br />Restrained the beams of thy beloved shine, <br />At thy return, if so thou could'st or durst, <br />Behold a Chaos blacker than the first. <br />Tell him here's worse than a confused matter, <br />His little world's a fathom under water. <br />Nought but the fervor of his ardent beams <br />Hath power to dry the torrent of these streams. <br />Tell him I would say more, but cannot well, <br />Oppressed minds abruptest tales do tell. <br />Now post with double speed, mark what I say, <br />By all our loves conjure him not to stay<br /><br />Anne Bradstreet<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/another/
